"You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill."
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"I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had."
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"If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since."
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"Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time."
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"Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice."
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"The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them."
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"Push yourself, when you get smart up top (in your head), your skills will fall right into place."
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"Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory."
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"Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good."
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"Better we raise our skill than lower the climb"
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"In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity."
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"Repetition is the mother of skill."
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"Pretending is a very valuable life skill."
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"Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline."
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"Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned."
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"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well."
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"My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn."
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"Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there."
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"Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'"
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"Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?"
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