Skill Quotes

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

David Ricardo

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The majority of us spend anywhere from three to ten hours - or more - being active and working out every week. Why not develop a skill and get better at something while you are getting the best full-body workout?

Anna Kaiser

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Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

Charles Stross

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Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion.

Jeffrey Gitomer

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To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

Bernhard Goetz

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Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

John Rhys-Davies

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Given the rapid rate of change, the old paradigm of one-off education followed by a career will no longer work: life-long learning is a must, and it is up to governments and employers to invest in training and for employees to commit to constantly update their skill set.

Alain Dehaze

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I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

Sarah Silverman

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Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Steven Spielberg

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The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.

James Chanos

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

Kate Reardon

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Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

Mathieu Amalric

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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Ronald Reagan had a kind of shallow movie-star charisma - a combination of makeup and the skill of a good actor - but it wasn't the real thing, and was something that he could turn off when the cameras weren't running.

Michael Korda

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Emotional intelligence is a very important skill set, not just to be happier but also to succeed professionally.

Daniel Lubetzky

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It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.

Lisa Hannigan

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The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Jonah Lehrer

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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Tavis Smiley

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At the end of the day, I know what my skill set and abilities are, and it's just going to take people a little while to recognize it. Whether that comes around or not, I'm not going to sit here in the corner and pout about it.

Demetrious Johnson

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If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.

Patrick Kane

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I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Chelsea Clinton

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