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"There's nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn't able to get good at. That's my skill. I'm not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That's what I do. That's what I'm here for."
"An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation."
"Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant."
"Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence."
"Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised."
"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"
"Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us."
"I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills."
"Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul."
"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
"The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour."
"All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people ."
"Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down"
"Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity."
"Don't do anything for the money you WILL make, but instead for the SKILLS you will learn."
"We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence."
"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
"There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward."
"One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly"
