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“At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.”

Helping Needed Skills Roots Data Reasoning Yearning Inquiry Ingenuity Receptivity

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.”

“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act. The root meaning of the word emotion, remember, is "to move.”

Self Remember Moving Emotion Emotional Skills Roots Fundamentals Psychological Impulse Self Control Resisting

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.”

Humans Art Kids Guy Numbers Practice Skills Six Computer Art Is Roots Math Seconds Professors Squares Harvey Calculators Square Roots

Author:Bill Nye

“I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.”

Writing School Individual Skills Roots Prose Scrutiny Tracking

Author:Camille Paglia

“Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.”

People Important Sometimes Ability Enemy Our Lives Strange Easier Skills Letting Go Capacity Roots Forgiving Hardest Resentment Coping Strange Things

Book:Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Source: Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember