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“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.”

Thinking Needs Feels Art Running Grows Water Media Ten Skills Perception Messages Mass Opposites Seconds Hook Make You Think Iconic Mass Media Sensational Vases Doggedness

Author:Robert Hughes

“Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.”

Ifs Ten Skills Extraordinary Satisfaction Burden Vocation Millionaire Lighters

Author:John Piper

“The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.”

Years Age Individual Five Ten Skills Twenties Assumption Replaced Obsolete Twenty One New Knowledge Learning New New Skills Learning New Skills

Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“London has always been open to trade, people, ideas. We have to keep that. I want to compete not just with New York, Paris, Berlin... the ten fastest growing cities in the world are in China. How do we compete with them? We have to attract investment and we have to compete on skills.”

People World Want Ideas Cities Growing New York Ten Skills Trade Investment China London Paris Berlin Cities In The World

Author:Sadiq Khan

“Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.”

Inspirational Thousand Ten Skills Plus Happier Days

Author:Shinichi Suzuki

“I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.”

Men Trying Might Earth Lying Half Lovers Succeed Ten Skills Limits Consequence Surprise Lips Clouds Mortals Remembered Throat Caress Surprise Me Guesswork Good Lovers

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran, he rapidly puts on the psychological makeup for this role he must play.”

Thinking Play Roles Minutes Ten Skills Mood Psychological Makeup Veteran Recognise Campus

Book:Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader

Source: Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader

“This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name”

Reason Pain Remember Names Pleasure Five Ten Skills Percent Hundred Twenties Luck Fifty Fifteen Will Power

Author:Mike Shinoda

“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.”

Wealth Money Deals Ten Skills Fortune Caution Boldness Rothschild

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson