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“LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“I worry about Rick Perry. One, he's too conservative, Two, his debating skills. And three ... Oh crap, what was three?”

Two Three Worry Skills Conservative Crap

Author:David Letterman

“Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.”

Knows Want Two Opinion Skills Ignorant Two Things Betray Timidity Audacity

Book:The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

Source: The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

“Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.”

Firsts Two Whole Evil Skills Benefits Divides Artificial Rhetoric Utility Attainment

Book:Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

Source: Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

“When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.”

Two Ability Team Skills Superiors Technical Skills Croatia Skills And Abilities

Author:Alan Mullery

“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.”

Way Years Humans Heart Two Light Imagination Human Beings Views Four Tree Skills Normal Survival Beats Seasons Possession Desert Faster Rely Sand Pace Palms Gleam Heart Beat Palm Trees

Book:Women of Sand and Myrrh

Source: Women of Sand and Myrrh

“People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.”

People Should Two Wish Ability Deals Succeed Skills Should Have Sells

Author:Shiv Khera

“I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and then determine how you will achieve them (what skills you will have to learn, what actions will you have to take). And these are totally under your control. These are not dependent upon anyone else.”

Want Firsts Two Action Goal Successful Achieve Skills Determine What You Want Two Things Being Successful Dependent

Author:Brian Tracy

“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.”

Men Years Two Home Lasts America Past Used Father Parent Term Generations Skills Authority Hundred Defined Primaries Making Money Masculinity Involvement Over The Past Fathering

Author:Frank Pittman

“Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.”

Two Reason Use Ability Skills Theory And Practice

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“While most of today's jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline,organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.”

People Two Today School Jobs Young Greater Discipline Skills Organization Management Decades Tolerance Frustration Staying Interpersonal Interpersonal Skills Stay In School

Author:James P. Comer

“One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification have been developed by economists. One is the method of partial equilibrium analysis (or microeconomics), generally associated with the name of Alfred Marshall and the other is the method of aggregation (or macro-economics), associated with the name of John Maynard Keynes.”

Has Beens Two Important Names Skills Models Economics Method Analysis Economist Equilibrium Simplification Keynes Macro Microeconomics

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.”

“From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.”

Knows Mean Two Found Walks Responsibility Known Forever Failing Skills Tough Safety Missions Flight Compromise Granted Aviation This Day Competent Never Take Anything For Granted

Author:Gene Kranz

“I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.”

Trying Two Kids Bits Break Magic Ready Skills Tricks Entertaining Magic Tricks Two Bit

Author:Johnny Carson

“Every child is born not only with a stomach that has to be catered to, it is also endowed with two hands which can work and produce the food for the stomach. The hands have to be given the strength and skill; they have to learn the lesson of self-reliance. They should never be lazy or slothful. Then, there can be no deficiency in food and no problem of underfeeding.”

Should Children Two Self Problem Hands Given Born Produce Lessons Skills Lazy Stomach Self Reliance No Problem Reliance Deficiency Two Hands

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.”

“Duets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players.”

Two Individual Player Skills Duets

Author:Daisy Goodwin

“There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.”

People Two Social Audience Thousand Skills Fluid One On One Social Skills

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Everybody has talent and it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and also something that you have a talent, not a talent for, but skills that you have a natural ability to do very well. And usually those two things go together.”

Wells Looks Two Matter Together Moving Night Loses Natural Ability Deals Talent Skills Combination Clock Look Up Two Things Losing Yourself Something You Love Natural Ability

Author:George Lucas

“I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters. Your position is won or lost by the hundredths of seconds you are faster than another individual. It's like the lineman who is there mostly for their athleticism and physicality. The driver, like the quarterback, possesses a unique skill that takes a lot longer to learn.”

Two Individual Lost Position Skills Unique Determined Faster Compare Drivers Seconds Quarterback Meter Physicality Athleticism Lineman

Author:Elana Meyers

“Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.”

Wells Two Different Seems Kids Culture Social Natural Son Personality Skills Athletic Social Skills

Author:Alex Kendrick

“Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you can learn the production side of it. You can learn how to be a good producer. And I guess it does take a certain balance of those two skills in your head to be a successful showrunner.”

Ifs Feels Writing Doe Two Certain Sides Creative Successful Like You Balance Skills Productions Producers Sparks Creative Spark

Author:Ronald D. Moore

“Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.”

Two Ends Play Easy Position Football Balance Skills Wide Hardest Offensive Quarterback Receiver Lineman Offensive Lineman Wide Receiver

Author:Tony Gonzalez

“Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.”

Ifs Way Two Different Helping Asks Creativity Fields Football Skills Nervous Ask Me Piano Improvisation Playing Piano

Author:Joey Harrington

“To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

Needs Giving Art Two Matter Play Universe Imagination Modern Minutes Objects Skills Fixed Categories Engineers Baskets Modern Art Picnics Craftsmanship Picnic Baskets

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.”

Humans Kind Said Two Understanding Skills Connections Satisfaction Human Connection

Author:Atul Gawande

“When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.”

Two Skills Gold Nervous Enjoyment Prize Target Brass Archer Buckles

Author:Zhuangzi

“Two things are to blame for our predicament, one a corollary of the other. The first reason is that we did not have enough troops in Samarra. The skill and courage of 150 American soldiers prevented chaos, but was never enough to fully secure a city of 120,000 people or maintain the rule of law [...] Second, because of a lack of troops, American military leaders are forced to make a choice between mission objectives and self-preservation.”

“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

“The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a woman with 'receptionist-level wife skills', not 'CEO-level wife skills'. Meaning: If a woman doesn't hang on a man's every word, is too independent, challenges his leadership, wants to create her own hours, demands emotional raises, then there won't be as many openings for the kind of wife position she is seeking. One of the big problems with marriages in the nineties: no room for two husbands.”

“Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.”

Knows Wells Two Country Next Winning Skills Female Ministers Prime Prime Minister Formidable

Author:Michael Gove

“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.”

Thinking Needs Writing Littles Two Ideas Stories Might Easy Understanding Reader Scene Skills Fairs Flow Narrative Clue Protagonists Ebb And Flow

Author:Dennis Green

“I think in theater it demands that you say the same words every night and make it feel fresh and new. Improv demands that you be operating at the highest level of your creativity intelligence. So these two skills are both very important but I've seen people who are very skilled at one area struggle with the other. Either improvisers feel constrained by having to say the same thing over and over again or people who are really good at doing scripted work feel intimidated and exposed doing improvisation.”

People Thinking Feels Two Important Night Levels Creativity Struggle Skills Demand Highest Areas Theater Exposed Every Night Improvisation Intimidated

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.”

Two Waiting Teach Teaching Skills Tables Cooks Restaurants

Author:Ann Patchett

“We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture - move and move fast enough. And at the same time the working force that is available must have skills which will fit the kind of jobs which will be in demand.”

Kind Two Enough Jobs Moving Force Walks Economy Conditions Fit Skills Demand Available Legs Agriculture Manufacturing

Author:Manmohan Singh

“My father was really good at having me stand on my own two feet, both financially and philosophically. His whole parenting philosophy was to give my brother and me the skills to be grown-ups and the curiosity to ask the right questions.”

Giving Two Philosophy Whole Asks Father My Own Feet Brother Skills Curiosity My Brother Right Questions

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.”

Knows Two Produce Painting Skills Highest Passages Caliber Truth And Beauty

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.”

Thinking Writing Two Stories Certain Passion Actors Ability Rooms Creativity Novel Amount Skills Short Story Stamina

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both.”

Art Two Ability Comedy Skills Ultimate Objectives Two Things Martial Arts Stand Up Comedy Skills And Abilities

Author:Joe Rogan

“There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.”

Ifs Way Needs Two Example Skills Determine Customers Backwards Two Ways Kindles Inventory Learning New New Skills Learning New Skills

Author:Jeff Bezos

“On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.”

Two Jobs Judging Skills Sitting Tables Zero Idols

Author:Rob Sheffield

“John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.”

Men Made Two Self Political Skills Survival Ultimate Blue Decades Serving Sandwiches Mold Hacks Self Serving

Author:Matt Taibbi

“There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.”

Two Able Moving Sports Skills Aspect Critical Technical Skills

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

“It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing their skills, and at least a day attempting to reach the summit. And then, having achieved their goal, they spend just a few moments enjoying the experience, along with one or two equally certifiable companions who have little in common other than wanting to do it all again, but a little higher.”

Men Littles Said Two Moments Young Enjoy Goal Common Week Months Higher Skills Irony Climbs Companion Preparing Attempting Summit Mountaineering Grown Man Rehearsing Honing

Book:Paths of Glory

Source: Paths of Glory

“Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom.”

Two Knowing Balance Activity Skills Findings Aspect Ultimate Aspects Of Life Ultimate Freedom

Book:Celebrating Silence

Source: Celebrating Silence

“And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hands, staring down at his enemy's shell.”

Two Body Hands Eye Faces White Enemy Arms Skills Empty Caught Staring Curse Toms Shells Rolling Seekers Mundane Pupils Riddle Scarlet Wands Vacant Finality Slits Unknowing

Author:J. K. Rowling

“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.”

“In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.”

Two Use Girl Fighting Given Ability Darkness Generations Thousand Skills Spread Chosen My Generation Slayer Single Girl

Author:Joss Whedon