1,149 Quotes About Skills

  • Author Michael Pena
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    Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.

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  • Author Michael Porter
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    Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

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  • Author Michael Pollan
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    We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.

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  • Author Nancy Pearcey
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    My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

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  • Author Natalie Portman
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    I learned to observe other people - that's sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill.

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  • Author Orhan Pamuk
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    Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

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  • Author Paracelsus
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    For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

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  • Author Ron Perlman
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    I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.

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