Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Opening Round

Skillful Quotes

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Will Advise
“People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they aren’t human.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...
tags: being, cat, cats, deciding, decision, decisions, human, immune, immunity, important, importantly, mule, mules, nothing, skill, skilled, skillful, stubborn, stubbornness, training, use, usefulness, uselessness, want, wants, whatever
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: ability, able, accomplished, adept, adroit, apt, aptitude, artistry, bent, better-days, better-days-ahead, brilliance-dexterity, brilliant, capable, capacity, competent, consummate, deft, dexterous, don-t-give-up, expert, expertise, facility, faculty-strength, flair, forte, genius, gift, gifted, give-up, hope, knack, masterly, never-give-up, proficient, skill, skilled, skillful, talent, talented, technique, touch
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak through a prolong period of flood. We must work our talents out and work them out skillfully and then our rainbow of excellence will show.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
tags: ark, diligence, excellence, flood, noah, rainbow, skillful, skills
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: ability, able, accomplished, ace, adept, adroit, advertiser, advertisers, advertising, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, apt, aptitude, artistry, bent, branding, brilliance, brilliant, capable, capacity, competent, consummate, crack, deft, dexterity, dexterous, expert, expertise, facility, faculty, flair, forte, funny, genius, gift, gifted, hilarious, hit, hits, humor, humorous, humour, joke, jokes, knack, market, marketer, marketers, marketing, masterly, music, musician, musicians, muso, musos, one-hit-wonder, personal-brand, personal-branding, playlist, playlists, proficient, quotations, quotes, radio, sales, satire, skill, skilled, skillful, strength, talent, talented, technique, top-40, top-forty, touch, ungifted, untalented
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Will Advise
“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults dictionary, which I stole.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...
tags: application, applied, applying, area, areas, dicktionaries, dicktionary, effect, effective, effectively, effectiveness, insult, insulting, insults, master, masterful, mastering, mastery, nothing, obsolete, obsoletion, possibilities, possibility, possible, redundancy, redundant, skill, skilled, skillful, skills, steal, stealing, stole, stolen, theft, thief, thievery, thieving
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Grow your talents and skills through a consistent practice and progressive learning. Learn to relearn and unlearn. Raise the bar for yourself always.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
tags: bar, excel, excellence, excellent, food-for-thought, great, greatness, grow, grow-great, growth, improve, improvement, increase, inspirational, inspirations, israelmore-ayivor, learn, motivational, motivations, personal-development, progress, progressive, raise-the-bar, relearn, skill, skillful, skills, unlearn
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Understand that you can’t achieve your dreams if you don’t connect with people who guide you to improve on upon the skills you have.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
tags: achieve, connect, connection, dreams, dreams-big, food-for-thought, guide, improve, israelmore-ayivor, mentor, mentors, networking, people, skillful, skills, understand
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Saad Salman
“Choosing the right career is the most difficult task for a person who is multi-talented and versatile. Because its hard to decide what field to go into, when you are good at too many things.”
― Saad Salman
tags: career, choice, future, human-nature, profession, quote, right, saad, salman, skillful, skills, student, talented, youth
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“Good nature is a man’s heaven,
The cursing of the [furious] is painful.
If you are skilled in speech, you will win,
The tongue is [a king’s] sword;
Speaking is stronger than all fighting,
The skillful is not overcome.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
tags: cursing, good, heaven, nature, painful, skillful, speaking, speech, tongue, win
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Israelmore Ayivor
“If you want to strike, strike now. No matter how skillfully a footballer strikes beyond the 90 minutes' regulated time, he makes no influence. Strike now before it becomes too late!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
tags: 90, 90-minutes, do-it, do-it-now, extra, extra-time, food-for-thought, foot-ball, football, footballer, goal, goal-keeper, influence, israelmore-ayivor, it-s-not-too-late, late, make-it-happen, management, score, score-a-goal, skill, skillful, strike, strike-now, talented, time, time-management, too-late, you-can, you-can-do-it, you-can-make-it
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Israelmore Ayivor
“If it's about the strength, every big animal can catch any mouse... but the skillful brand of the cat makes it's catch exceptional! Go, get the skills!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
tags: animal, be-skilled, big, big-animal, brand, cat, cat-and-mouse, catch, excel, excellent, exceptional, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, learn, mouse, skillful, skillfulness, skills, strength, strong, unique
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Don’t keep people in hatred. You might lose that very person who should endorse your next appointment letter if you are a skillful hater of people. Let love lead”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
tags: appoint, appointment, critics, dislike, endorse, endorsement, food-for-thought, hate, hater, hatred, israelmore-ayivor, let-love-lead, letter, love, love-people, people, person, skill, skillful, written-letter
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
tags: behavior, behaviour, careless, careless-people, character, failure, fault, faultless, flaw, flawless, flaws, food-for-thought, genius, genuine, good-manners, innovate, innovation, innovator, invent, inventor, israelmore-ayivor, law, lawless, skill, skillful, skillfulness, skills, success, will, willfulness, willing, willingness
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Will Advise
“Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...
tags: being, cat, cats, dead, deadly, death, grammar, mark-twain, meow, ninja, ninjas, nothing, sarcasm, sickening, silence, silent, skill, skilled, skillful, usage
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
“It's noble to be skilled, but ultimately people pay for solutions your skills can provide not the skills you possess”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive
tags: skill-quotes, skillful, solution-to-problems, talent-quotes
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“Only a man who is exceptionally skillful can stand before kings.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
tags: calling, conversion, convert, exceptions, gift, great, greatness, humanity, kings, life, man, poverty, produce, product, productivity, purpose, skillful, skills, time, value, waste, wealth, work, world
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Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
“A celebrity is one who’s disciplined with the nitty-gritty of success and has applied dexterity to the extremity of endurance. When he skillfully performs with easy pace and grace, we marvel at his level.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
tags: celebrity-culture, endurance-and-attitude, graceful, skillful
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“People have to grow through skillful frustrations, otherwise they have no incentive to develop their own means and ways of coping with the world.”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
tags: coping, frustration, grow, skillful
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Sei Shōnagon
“In the old days, even the most inconsequential people were impressive. You don't hear such stories these days, do you?”
― Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book
tags: good-old-days, impressive, knowledge, old-days, past-and-present, past-quotes, people-relations, people-skills, skillful, talented-people
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Goals are easily scored with either a skillful strike or a strong one. If you make a strong strike, it's impossible for it to be defended by obstacles in your goal!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
tags: defend, food-for-thought, goals, impossible, israelmore-ayivor, obstacles, score, skillful, skills, strike, striker, strong, win-your-game
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You cannot be accountable with the products of someone else's mind; no man is known for a skillful hunting by the number of bush meats gathered by another man!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
tags: accomplishments, achievements, animals, bush-meats, do-it-now, do-it-yourself, food-for-thought, hunter, israelmore-ayivor, meats, products, skillful, skillfulness, skills, think-big, you, you-can-do-it-yourself
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Israelmore Ayivor
“The skills of a leader will determine how excellent he will perform. His attitude will determine how often he will do that.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: attitude, attitude-is-everything, excel, excellent, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, perform, performance, personal-development, skill, skillful, skillfulness, skills, standout
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You may have good skills and better knowledge, but it is your attitude that will bring people closer to you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
tags: attitude, behaviour, better-you, close, closer, food-for-thought, harsh, information, israelmore-ayivor, know, knowledge, lifestyle, people, personal-development, polite, skill, skillful, skillfully, success, wisdom
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Christina Engela
“This is not your standard “How to restore” your VW Beetle book. It’s also not a workshop manual. Aside from a basic rundown on the differences between various bug models through the years, there is a section on some things you can do to preserve your bug. Mostly however, what I’ve done is reviewed all the things I did to my bugs
and put those ideas together as cheap, skillful, cheap, d.i.y, cheap means of enhancing your grocery getter’s performance and handling.”
― Christina Engela, Bugspray
tags: between, book, bug, bugs, cheap, d-i-y, getter-s, handling, however, manual, restore, reviewed, skillful, standard, things, years
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
tags: food-for-thought, game, games, goals, israelmore-ayivor, leaders, leadership, martin-luther, martin-luther-king, martin-luther-king-jr, play-your-game, results, score, score-a-goal, scoreline, scores, skill, skillful, skills, step, step-in, step-out, win-your-game
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“Parrying a blow before it strikes,
Giving a commission to one who is skillful.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
tags: blow, commission, parry, skillful, strike
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“Proficiency in martial arts is the practice of keeping centered and skillfully responsive under the direst of circumstances: the threat of physical harm.”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
tags: center, harm, martial-arts, skillful, threat
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“When your personal safety or very life is on the line, to remain alert, mobile, and skillful is an immense feat of self-mastery”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
tags: alert, life, mastery, mobile, safety, skillful
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“When your personal safety or very life is on the line, to remain alert, mobile, and skillful is an immense feat of self-mastery.”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
tags: alert, mastery, mobile, safety, skillful
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Jay Heinrichs
“The basic difference between an argument and a fight: an argument, done skillfully, gets people to want to do what you want. You fight to win; you argue to achieve agreement.”
― Jay Heinrichs, Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
tags: agreement, argument, fight, skillful, win
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