- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skill Quotes
On the abilities people build one job at a time.
These skill quotes treat humor as a genuine ability, one voice credits with turning a rough stretch into steady work rather than just a coping habit. For more on natural aptitude, see Ability quotes.
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true; I have a skill and it's... it has not related to acting, it's not related to auditions, it's not related to studios, not related to public whim. It's whether I'm funny or not and whether I can entertain people.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency of the human spirit - the skill and insight of the writer lifting the parochial novel above the level of regional concern. Making it personal, national, and universal.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020