"Passion is never enough; neither is skill."
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"Build your skills, not your resume."
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"Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?"
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"We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing."
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"Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills."
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"Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics."
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"Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,."
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"The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve."
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"Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells."
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"To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills"
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"You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills"
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"Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated."
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"Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools."
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"Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure."
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"Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation."
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"Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender."
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"A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer."
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"It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other"
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"Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care."
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"When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself."
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