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Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .
Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.
Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.
My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.
Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'
Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.
Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.
I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.
A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy.
Cold calling is about developing social skills and getting used to rejection. We are constantly selling something to somebody.
My approach to running for office has always been driven by where can I do the most good and where are my skills best applied.
One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.
It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.
Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.
Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength or athleticism. Toughness is A SKILL that can be developed & improved.
Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'
Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.
I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.
How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.
It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
The fact is that there is nothing wrong with most of us that a good, clean change of attitude and some new skills wouldn't fix.
New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.
If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.
Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.
As long as you are happy and passionate about what you are doing, you will always develop your skills to be the best you can be.
The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.
It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
The website is me. It's a reflection of my personality and my interests. It's the perfect marriage of my skills and experiences.
The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.
Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.
And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.
Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.
Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.