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“There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.”

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Book:An American Childhood

Source: An American Childhood

“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.”

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Author:James A. Garfield

“People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.”

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Author:Teresa Amabile

“What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills, and network connections. Career responsibility is squarely in the hands of individuals, a function of their knowledge and networks. Transferable knowledge is more important to a career than firm-specific knowledge.”

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Book:Men and Women of the Corporation

Source: Men and Women of the Corporation

“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”

Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

“Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.”

“You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.”

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Book:Orr: My Story

Source: Orr: My Story

“The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.”

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Author:Robert Heller

“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”

Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.”

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Author:Tsugumi Ohba

“How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn't even exist? Work, as distinguished from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture cooperation.”

“Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould