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1 " Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life. "
― Brian Tracy
2 " The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones. "
― Joseph Bruchac
3 " Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change. "
― Grace Sara , Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
4 " There is a skill to learning. It is all about what is and what is not. While Science is knowing what is, Art is creating what is not. "
― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
5 " Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually. "
― Ally Carter , Out of Sight, Out of Time (Gallagher Girls, #5)
6 " As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing. "
― Alberto Manguel , The Library at Night
7 " The medicine to fear, these days, is a dose of reality! Because these days the reality is far worse than the disembodiment of the ideal. People today are afraid of the disembodiment of the ideal, because they think the ideal is the reality. A rabbit that does not know it lives in the ground with snakes, is constantly afraid of the sea hawk possibly finding its way to land, to destroy the rabbit’s meadowy existence. In the meadow, living in fear of the sea hawk, not knowing the hole in the ground next to its burrow belongs to a snake. I show the rabbit where the snakes are, thus eliminating its hazardous fear. Misplaced fear is hazardous fear. Fear well placed is a skill for survival. "
― C. JoyBell C.
8 " Making good decisions is a skill anyone can develop with effort. "
― Mensah Oteh
9 " As the campaign progressed, Armistead remembered what his parents had taught him: If you never tell a lie, you won't have to remember what you said.He subsequently developed a perverse respect for politicians who had mastered the art of spin. It was a skill to produce an answer having nothing to do with the question.He didn't think he was crafty enough to do it. "
― Rodney Page , Powers Not Delegated
10 " I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross) "
― Sandra Brown , The Alibi
11 " Planning is a skill and an art which takes a lifetime to master "
― Paddick Van Zyl
12 " There's no " get rich quick." There's no " overnight success." However, this doesn't mean that when you decide to start a business that you're just starting. You could start making new money tomorrow. I was fishing with my son and taught him that you can't catch a fish unless your line is in the water. A truth my dad once taught me. You may have spent years learning a skill or creating a product or service that you just simply haven't thought to monetize. Like leaving a fishing pole on the ground along side the river, but not having your line in the water yet. All you need to create a new stream of income is to make something consumable and offer it at a price that someone will pay. If you're not making offers, you're not making money. Get your line in the water! "
13 " most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonviolence spirit and tactics at a famous institution, Highlander Folk School. It seems to be a difficult concept for most of us that peace is a skill that can be learned. We know war can be learned, but we seem to think that one becomes a peacemaker by a mere change of heart. (23) "
― Mahatma Gandhi
14 " Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy. "
― Alan W. Watts , The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
15 " One thing is for sure. Nothing in life is easy or certain. You'll be fighting until the end. And when you've overcome all chaos has to offer, those who had it easy will struggle. By fighting through it, you are giving yourself a skill some just do not have. When the world, and the realm, erupt into chaos, you'll be the one standing with a sword still in your hand. Be proud of yourself. You're more of a warrior than you know. "
― Lori Goodwin
16 " The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated. "
― Lailah Gifty Akita
17 " Leadership is a skill learned through many venues. "
― Todd Stocker ,
18 " Common sense is a skill to learn, and it is the foundation of all good business. "
19 " Practice transforms a skill into an art "
20 " Never miss an opportunity to learn another life skill. Just because you are an author or a doctor does not mean that you cannot learn carpentry, auto mechanics,electrical wiring, farming, or any other discipline. Each of these skills will give you the opportunity to help someone and to make a friend. Your new friend probably has a skill that you do not. If you will just ask every skilled person you see to show you how he does what he does, you will have the tools to succeed in life, to make new friends, and to save a boatload of money. "
