"Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent."
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"It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life."
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"Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems."
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"Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art."
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"I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies."
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"True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship. But true listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person's attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts."
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"It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any."
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"Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured."
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"Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success."
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"Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end."
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"The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the expert consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so."
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"It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world."
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"Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time."
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"Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill."
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"What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future."
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"The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time."
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"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."
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"Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either."
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"Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill"
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"In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills."
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