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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
Robert Greene
Future
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The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction
Bruce Lee
Knowledge
Skill
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
Zac Goldsmith
School
Teach
Children
Basic Skills
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I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.
Young Jeezy
Bad
Bad Things
Good
Good People
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One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.
Dwayne Johnson
One
Skills
Learn
Become
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In business nowadays, people always forget to work with the heart. It’s not every time that you go for skills.
Don Jazzy
Business
Work
Forget
Skill
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Life is never about individual outcomes, but about the journey, the lessons and skills learnt along the way.
Funmi Iyanda
Life
Way
Lessons
Outcomes
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The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
Richard Branson
Any
Art
Delegation
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If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.
Larry Page
Any
Car
Discipline
Interested
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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos
Backward
Business
Customers
Determine
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.
Uzodinma Iweala
Ask
Clinical
Environment
How
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I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.
Steve Harvey
Author
Believe
Man
New
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
Stephen Covey
Being
Better
Between
Challenges
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Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.
Chris Gardner
Age
Beats
Created
Digital
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Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.
Chris Gardner
Ability
Anything
Big
Big Deal
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
Aaron Sorkin
Area
Communication
Communication Skills
Day
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Kofi Annan
Build
Business
Civil
Community
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The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.
Kofi Annan
Colonial
Country
Fight
Gain
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
Adam Savage
American
Beautiful
Birth
Canal
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It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.
Virginia Satir
Family
Microcosm
World
Understand
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
Idris Elba
Between
Certain
Certain Things
Characters
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My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.
Virgil Abloh
Design
Graphic
Graphic Design
I Can
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What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.
Frank Miller
About
CGI
Computer
Happened
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Irvine Welsh
About
Arts
Because
Business
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My personal view is that another total lockdown would be counterproductive. Before defeating the virus, we must learn to live with it all around us and practice the skills of avoiding it like a landmine. Practice makes perfect. We cannot perfect those skills by locking ourselves up
Festus Keyamo
Personal view
Lockdown
Counterproductive
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Success should be counted by how many young people go to school and get skills and jobs, and not by how many young people can be marshaled to disrupt elections, or how many broken bones we can count.
Nana Akufo-Addo
Success
Skills
Jobs
Go to school
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I use all my skills that I can muster up, but the fun thing is that I find some untapped skills every once in a while. I get that from my daddy.
Reba McEntire
Daddy
Every
Find
Fun
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If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.
George Soros
Sum up
Skills
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I think education opened up huge vista and opportunities and networks and the courage to do with those skills what you can.
Amina J. Mohammed
Education opened
Opportunities
Network
Courage
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Chief
Concern
Him
Himself
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We need an education that goes beyond the classroom. We need an education whose objective is not simply to qualify and certify individuals. It must be an education that aims at building capabilities in the people. We must aim at empowering people with skills.
Peter Mutharika
Skills
People
Building
Education
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I’m hoping we begin to teach our kids a lot of skills, now that they’re way younger, instead of waiting till they get to a tertiary level so that they can have something profitable to do during their leisure time.
Desmond Elliot
Hoping
Teach
Our kids
Skills
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I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.
Mark Cuban
Learning
Advocate
Greatest skill
College
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Entrepreneurship without skills limits your growth potential.
Strive Masiyiwa
Entrepreneurship
Skills
Limits
Growth potential
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If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.
Strive Masiyiwa
Working
Running
Business
Money
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Regardless of what your first job is, find out the requisite skills you need to grow in your chosen career path. And do your best to acquire those skills or get mentored by those who have done what you want to do.
Abubakar Suleiman
Regardless
First job
Requisite skills
Chosen career
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Use your entrepreneurial drive, uncompromising integrity, and a passion for excellence in everything you do, and apply all of those skills, talents and capabilities to address the challenges the continent faces.
Adebayo Ogunlesi
Entrepreneurial drive
Uncompromising integrity
Passion
Excellence
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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
Tiger Woods
Talent
Born with
Skill
Something
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Children are our hope for a brighter future and we must empower them with the values, skills and opportunities to achieve their dreams.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu
Children
Our hope
Brighter future
Empower them
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You can be locked down but you don't need to be locked out.Engage your mind,advance your skills,refresh your ambitions and activate your visions
Akanimo Odon
Can be
Locked down
Locked out
Engage
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If children who commit crimes are not given the opportunity of a second chance, they may die in prison for acts made before having developed the cognitive and emotional skills needed to make informed and smart decisions and choices.
Alan Simpson
If children
Commit crimes
Not given
Opportunity
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with the right investment in providing our youth with digital skills today, Africa will provide the human resources for the global world of work in ten to thirty years.
Ursula Owusu
Right investment
Our youth
Digital skills
Will provide
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Investment and skills training in agriculture continues to be a primary focus.
Alan John Kyerematen
Investment
Skills training
Agriculture
Primary focus
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For a leader to have skills necessary to succeed. Some people are born to lead and others acquire the skills to lead.
Folorunsho Alakija
A leader
Have skills
Necessary
To succeed
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In all you do, always strive to acquire skills that make you standout and excel.
Folorunsho Alakija
You do
Always strive
Acquire skills
Make you
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I emphasized the need for particular attention to be paid to children with disabilities to ensure that they are not left behind in the quest for enhanced child literacy skills.
Rebecca Akufo-Addo
I emphasized
Particular attention
Be paid
Children
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It is essential for social and human development. The ability to read and write well, provides individuals with skills and empowers them to transform their lives.
Rebecca Akufo-Addo
Essential
Social
Human development
Ability
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The youth are the tip of the spear that we must leverage on to tear down every challenge but they need skills retooling
Richard Munang
Youth
The tip
Spear
Leverage on
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
Anthony Bourdain
Skills
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Character
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Here’s a chance to put money into youth’s pockets in a way that is consistent, predictable, reliable and accountable while contributing to their ability to be able to market themselves in future through skills acquired in the middle of the pandemic.
Raila Odinga
A chance
Put money
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Consistent
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