Immanuel Kant Quotes, Mean Quotes, Skills Quotes

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

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In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

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But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

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May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

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It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

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Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

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Skill makes love unending.

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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

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When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.

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Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

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There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

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Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

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