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“I think my moment of revelation came when I saw this young man come on court in the most flamboyant clothes. He had a sweet smile and questionably blonde hair and a generally chirpy glamour that in fact concealed huge skill. When he was interviewed he confessed to hating to get angry and it was also said that he slithered out of winning when it came to the big matches. And I thought, My God! This Andre Agassi is the image of Howl in my book HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE!”

“Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.”

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Author:Oliver DeMille

“When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.”

Thinking Mean Able Interest Teaching Students Skills Independence Distinguished Lively Epistemology Independence Of Thought

Author:Albert Einstein

“Well, I think there was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women would make. But I think that's changed a lot now. I think that if a woman director walks into a room with a script, it doesn't really matter what the subject matter is, or the genre is, so long as the financiers feel that the woman has the skills to make the film.”

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Author:Gurinder Chadha

“I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable.”

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Author:Alex Ferguson

“I've seen people who are not very likeable but hilarious. I think comedians get to a point where they know they're funny, so they don't care - in the sense that they know what they're doing. They have a skill.”

People Thinking Knows Care Skills Don't Care Comedian Likeable

Author:Ted Alexandro

“The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills. Comments display our universal failure to teach and value critical thinking, leaving the possibility open that both everything and nothing could be true.”

Thinking Values Teach Possibility Skills Universal Fundamentals Leaving Critical Being True Comment Display Critical Thinking

Author:Travis Nichols

“Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.”

“When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.”

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Author:John Lasseter

“When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between themselves and the characters they are playing while at the same time remain in character and spontaneous requires a sophisticated combination of skills and spirit.”

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Author:Mike Leigh

“I've had failures, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't beneath me to pick up the phone and introduce myself to Bernard Malamud and say, "I'd like to introduce myself to you and to come meet you. I think I might have something that's worthy of your skills as a writer."”

Thinking Might Skills Picks Phones Worthy Introducing

Author:Lawrence Schiller

“I think that we should give visas to people - green cards, rather, to people who graduate with skills that we need. People around the world with accredited degrees in science and math get a green card stapled to their diploma, come to the U.S. of A. We should make sure our legal system works.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.”

Thinking Important Ability Party Economy Streets Skills Locals Terrific Organizer

Author:David Korten

“... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.”

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Book:Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Source: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

“I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.”

Thinking Believe Important I Believe Ability Skills Patterns Heavy Recognition Perceive Related Involvement Aptitude

Author:Linda Bradford Raschke

“I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.”

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Author:Tony Hsieh

“First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.”

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Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.”

Thinking School Values Goes On Skills Tough Profound Curiosity Critical Worthwhile Components Critical Thinking

Author:Nicholas Lemann

“I've been getting my reel together. I think they are looking at me more as an actress because I have a lot of potential and a lot of skills.”

Thinking Together Skills Actresses

Author:Serena Williams

“Nearly every taping or audition has to be in an American accent, so you don't have a choice; you just have to get good at it. I'm sure you can appreciate accents - it's like learning any skill, you have to work at it and work at it and it takes an awful lot of time, until it's muscle memory and you don't have to think about it anymore.”

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Author:Jeremy Irvine

“I think you couldn't do this role or you couldn't be Frankie Valli himself unless you had a natural falsetto. And I had sort of discovered it by accident as a child or a young adult when you realize you have a special skill that you don't really have any use for you, and you just take it out at parties or to amuse your friends or to annoy your girlfriends.”

Thinking Children Use Young Realizing Natural Party Roles Special Skills Adults Young Adult Accidents Girlfriend Annoying Your Girlfriend Falsetto

Author:John Lloyd Young

“Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.”

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Author:Karin Slaughter

“It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.”

People Thinking Ideas Form Heaven Born Creative Honest Genius Discipline Skills Trade Starting Submit Starting Out Creative Ideas Technical Skills

Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Improve writing skills: 1. Keep paragraphs short. 2. Use bold and CAPS to make points. 3. Start with a question or short statement. 4. Give me meat in the middle. All meat. 5. Make me smile, think, or act at the end.”

Thinking Giving Writing Ends Use Middle Skills Give Me Statements Meat Caps Paragraph Make Me Smile Writing Skills

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.”

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Author:David D. Burns

“...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline [and] cooperation.”

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Author:Rich Mullins

“I don't think I had any idea at the time how to work with someone as masterful as he is. And I don't think at the time I really understood what was happening. I think I was in a space where I was like: there are all these things. I was shooting all these takes with David, and I was just confused, as a person, and as an actor feeling a little too big for my britches and that this thing was happening and then also not having enough skill yet, and technique to know exactly where I was, and know about the character.”

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Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.”

Thinking Born Skills Tough Toughness

Author:Jay Bilas

“I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.”

Thinking Way Giving Feels Trying Mind Actors Careers Skills

Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.

“I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded came from things like paradiddles, flam paradiddles, flam triplets... They might be boring to sit down and practice, but not when you apply them to the drums.”

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Author:Phil Collins

“The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's always pressure that you make the right choice for the next film. You don't know what the outcome is gonna be, there's always potential to find length to your career as well. Now I'm so far from any other job skills that if I don't make movies.”

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Author:Cary Fukunaga

“I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.”

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Author:Marc Jacobs

“I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?”

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Author:Naveen Jain

“It's just like an idea, like a chorus, and then we just jam on it - it happens in loads of different ways. The best songs I find always come from the subconscious, like when you don't think. Not to be pretentious about it, but usually songs just blurt out rather than thinking about it. I never write lyrics and then do a song, I find that really hard - that's like a real skill.”

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Author:Luke Pritchard

“I don't think of color, I think that anyone wants a master of their skill and be successful knows no color.”

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Author:Maxine Powell

“Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.”

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Author:David Perkins

“To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.”

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Book:De Bono's Thinking Course

Source: De Bono's Thinking Course

“I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.”

Thinking Two Different Film Careers Skills Connections Mediums Journalism

Author:Greg Kinnear

“Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty weird.”

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Author:Betty Dodson

“I think on a stage in front of thousands of people is a wildly invigorating and amazing experience, and it requires a certain skill set; then being in the studio, and being curled up in the fetal position under the piano, that requires another skill set.”

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Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“I think that more so, my wonderful skill of dissociation came in very handy. I care very much what other people think. I'm a total pleaser. I want everyone to like me all the time. I feel like people who don't feel that way on some level are lying, but particularly female memoirists. We want to be seen and we want to be forgiven. So that occurred to me very early on.”

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Author:Melissa Febos

“I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.”

Thinking Ability Skills Complicated Best Things Introvert

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“I feel I need to really think about whether there's a way to use what skill I have to address things that outrage me, like the 13 year old girl getting stoned to death. Because I don't think making a movie is going to help that, or change that.”

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Author:Steven Soderbergh

“I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.”

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Author:Dan Chaon

“I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes the diagnosis based on some standard tests and also on clinical impression and skill.”

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Author:Gerald Fischbach

“I think part of the bad thing is that skill is emphasized so much that a lot of people, by the time they get to Juilliard, well I think they kind of forget why they got into music in the first place and if they're performers - this is a simplification, but a lot of them are trying to win a competition and play more accurately, or better, or more beautifully, whatever can be measured, than somebody else.”

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Author:Tod Machover

“I just think that Kimbo [Slice] in the future could be a great fighter. He's got the look and obviously he's got the marketability but skill-wise he really hasn't gotten an opportunity to settle in and develop on his skills.”

Thinking Looks Opportunity Wise Skills Fighter Settling Marketability

Author:Ken Shamrock

“How do we create jobs for so many Americans who are feeling pushed out, not just left out, pushed out of the modern economy. Obviously it's skills and education. But it's also jobs. So if I could do anything it would be to take this moment in time that we've got when, yes, our recovery is better, we've had steadier growth, I don't think President [Barack] Obama frankly gets the credit he deserves for the kind of steady hand that he and his advisers apply to moving through that really dangerous period.”

“It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.”

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Author:Dennis Green

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