Skills Quotes — Page 36

Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician

“I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.”

Hands Skills Determination

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Benjamin Carson

Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician

“Let`s teach those people that when they go to work, they get skills, they meet people, they get opportunities, they get to climb the ladder, they get much better off than the person who`s just sitting at home receiving those things.”

Home Opportunity Skills

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David Hume

Philosopher, Historian

“Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and intelligent, refines them from their brute state, and fits them for human use and convenience.”

Skills Intelligent Rude

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Deborah Smith

Chef

“I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from a working-class background, what I knew of as British literature - the writers who made big prize lists and/or were stocked in WH Smith, Doncaster's only bookshop until I was 17 - seemed incredibly, alienatingly middle-class. Then in 2009, just after the financial crash, I graduated with no more specific skill than 'can analyse a bit of poetry'.”

Class Literature Skills

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Denis Diderot

Philosopher, Writer

“If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.”

Games Skills Learning

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Dorothy H Cohen

Psychologist

“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.”

Years Skills Learning

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Douglas Adams

Writer, Humorist

“ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.”

Games Skills Clever

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Deepak Chopra

Author, Speaker

“The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously.”

Skills Letting Go Enjoy

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Cesare Pavese

Poet, Novelist

“The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.”

Past Effort Skills

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Conrad Dobler

Football Player

“Positive thinking is a good attitude to have. But positive thinking without any skills is a load of crap.”

Attitude Skills Positive Thinking

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Conan O'Brien

Television Host, Comedian

“The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has the financial planning skills of a college sophomore.”

Government College Skills

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Chris Hughes

Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

“I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.”

Moving Skills Meaningful

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