Quotes by Skills One of the biggest benefits of playing box for a young lacrosse player is in the development of lacrosse IQ. Because everyone plays with a short stick [in box lacrosse], you have to focus on being a complete lacrosse player versus specializing as an attackman or d-man. That is how your IQ grows and skills improve. Peter Lawrence skillsplayermen I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills. Peter Mandelson campaigningskills Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language. Peter Norvig pythonskillspeople Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions. Peter Drucker skillsdecisionfirsts Hire character. Train skill. Peter Schutz skillsbusinesscharacter It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps. Peter Straub sadnessskillsself Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill. Peter Travers gearsskillsdirectors It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear. Peter Senge clearvisionskills Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch. Peter Tork batsskillsbaseball With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That is how you create work. That's the role of the artist - to change the way you view things. Petra Collins skillsartistviews Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. Peter Thiel skillscollegepeople Truth had me up against the ropes Pharoahe Monch rapboxingskills I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded came from things like paradiddles, flam paradiddles, flam triplets... They might be boring to sit down and practice, but not when you apply them to the drums. Phil Collins skillspracticethinking My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge. Philip Arthur Fisher skillsmistakebelieve No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm. Paulo Coelho skillswritinglife Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations. Philip K. Dick chanceskillsuse Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all. Philip Yancey achievementskillsjesus Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills. Philippa Perry skillscreativeorder If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections. Philippa Perry connectionsskillsifs We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions. Philip Zimbardo skillspeoplemoving«8182838485868788899091»
