"That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise."
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"How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry."
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"Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice."
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"The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich."
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"It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first."
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"In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless."
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"Skills make you rich, not theories."
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"The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent."
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"The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices."
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"Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions."
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"Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.p97."
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"Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having."
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"There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap."
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"Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well."
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"When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill."
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"The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life."
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"Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do)."
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"I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle."
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"Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering."
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"The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction."
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