Quotes On Acquiring Skills

#1. Some people can work amid chaos or conversations, and some can't - and while there's no doubt an element of brain wiring to it, there's also the possibility of acquiring skills that improve your focus.

Carolyn Hax

#2. Lamenting the past is a waste of energy that we can turn into positive energy through work and acquiring skills.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#3. Four lines, and the world went quiet.
I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum, read the first line.
I miss being your friend, read the second.
Are you okay? read the third.
I see you, read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.

Patrick Ness

#4. My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.

James Nasmyth

#5. This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America.

Cory Booker

#6. Everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.

Sheila Ballantyne

#7. Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#8. They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

Queen Elizabeth II

#9. The problem is that faith based upon twisted information is nothing more than delusion - and delusion leads to division. It divided humanity, taking us into endless wars - separating us by race, religion, and politics.

R. Brown

#10. We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.

Veronica Roth

#11. Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

Twyla Tharp

#12. I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.

Karen Salmansohn

#13. I don't think I really like myself. And I blame the Old Man for this.

Barack Obama

#14. The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.

Harold Rosenberg

#15. Education was my father's way out of poverty. He taught me that learning was incredibly valuable.

Phil Cooke

#16. A coward cries during a storm;
a man of faith sings through it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning,

John Doerr

#18. The only law is one which leads to freedom

Richard Bach

#19. I'm the first guy to drive long-distance on Mars. The first guy to spend more than thirty-one sols on Mars. The first guy to grow crops on Mars. First, first, first! I wasn't expecting to be first at anything.

Andy Weir

#20. It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such determin'd side, and therefore I call it Chance, which is nothing but the want of art ...

John Arbuthnot

#21. Strider hovered over the scope and slammed his eye on it before jumping back with a hand over the squinting eye. That bloody thing is dangerous.

Tess Oliver

#22. When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

John Scofield