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What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.
Mark Kurlansky
Needs
Sports
Power
Every
Sets
Speed
Other
Array
Apart
Skills
Agility
Baseball
Player
I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.
Martha Wainwright
Other
Ability
Long-Term
Because
Trying
Skills
Career
When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.
Martin Evans
Writing
School
Think
Extra
Seven
Date
Football
Instead
New
Period
Learn
Still
Handwriting
Lack
Moved
Soccer
Poor
Skills
Lessons
Playing
Kept
This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
Martin Lewis Perl
Work
Good
Training
Sometimes
Research
Gifted
Boring
Involve
Particularly
Parts
Because
Experimental
Which
Skills
Use
Large
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
Marvin Bower
Education
People
Personality
Performance
Judged
Personal
Traits
Nationality
Should
Skills
Basis
Listen, when you're starting out you're trying to be as creative as possible about how you can use your skills as an actor to make money.
Mary Wiseman
You
Creative
Money
Out
Possible
About
Make
How
Trying
Listen
Skills
Use
Your
Actor
Starting
Men display less self-doubt and lead with what seems always like a sense of force and direction. We are not as familiar with women leaders, and so we question their skills. As women, we always need to work harder to prove our competence.
Maureen Chiquet
Work
Women
Men
Sense
Our
Seems
Direction
Lead
Leaders
Like
Self-Doubt
Force
Always
Prove
Question
Familiar
Skills
Less
Display
Harder
Competence
Need
Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.
Michael Bloomberg
Needs
People
Country
Doctors
Think
Sets
Percent
Give
Educate
Canada
Green
Green Card
Six
Aside
Then
Skills
Card
Set
Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.
Michael Giacchino
Music
Immensely
Math
Skills
Help
Helps
It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.
Michael Gove
Time
School
Master
Before
Inclusive
Spend
Critical
Through
Environment
Schooling
Attractive
Learn
Arrive
Where
Children
Formal
Social
Warm
Skills
Prepare
Social Skills
Play
Now we're dealing with a younger generation of terrorists that are very, very savvy with computer skills, very savvy over the Internet, and very savvy with social media of the likes that we have never seen before.
Michael McCaul
Generation
Social Media
Internet
Seen
Before
Savvy
Computer
Never
Over
Likes
Dealing
Terrorists
Very
Social
Younger
Younger Generation
Skills
Media
Now
We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.
Michael N. Castle
Age
Opportunities
Young
Minds
Open
Put
Instill
Real
Up
Very
Afforded
Young Age
Succeed
Them
Skills
Imaginations
Need
'Boardwalk' has kind of exposed me to a different demographic. And it upped my skills in terms of the speed with which I can prep a scene, and I'm excited to apply that.
Michael Pitt
Me
Speed
Kind
Scene
Excited
Terms
Demographic
Different
Which
Boardwalk
Skills
Prep
Exposed
Apply
Things you don't expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can't let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.
Mikaela Shiffrin
Life
You
Valuable
Those
Throw
Come
Off
Up
Expect
Racing
Really
Skills
Cope
Things
Adapt
Everyone without extraordinary research skills ought to be able to know what is happening inside the government, how it operates, where their tax dollars are going. Then they can make better decisions in the electoral process.
Mike Quigley
Government
Better
Research
Extraordinary
Ought
Everyone
Inside
Able
Know
Make
Without
How
Dollars
Going
Tax
Where
Happening
Tax Dollars
Process
Decisions
Then
Electoral
Skills
Electoral Process
There's a belief... in the country that we can cure unemployment by creating opportunity. The skills gap proves that opportunity along is not enough to get people employed.
Mike Rowe
People
Opportunity
Country
Enough
Along
Employed
Proves
Cure
Unemployment
Get
Creating
Skills
Gap
Belief
I'm fascinated by the skills gap.
Mike Rowe
Skills
Fascinated
Gap
We've lost touch with our souls. We've been nourishing our minds, our relational skills, our theological knowledge, our psychological well-being, our physiological health... but we've abandoned our souls.
Mike Yaconelli
Health
Knowledge
Lost
Our
Minds
Abandoned
Touch
Physiological
Well-Being
Souls
Been
Psychological
Skills
Theological
Nourishing
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.
Misty May-Treanor
Nice
Pedestal
More
Excelled
Put
Known
Normal
Normal Person
Person
Want
Little
Skills
You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.
Mitchell Hurwitz
Me
You
People
Training
Amazing
Old
Girl
Young
Those
About
Know
Also
Forced
Learn
Unusual
Traditional
Very
Training Ground
Golden
Old People
Skills
Show
Ground
Start
I came into the industry as an actor. And moved on to become a star with the help of my dancing skills.
Mithun Chakraborty
Become
Dancing
Industry
Came
Moved
Moved On
Skills
Help
Star
Actor
Who could think that children from the pockets of Himalaya sing folklore from Scotland and vice versa? Such an education in the initial years develops compassion and mutual respect for each other's skills.
Mohit Chauhan
Education
Respect
Compassion
Vice Versa
Think
Other
Folklore
Mutual
Mutual Respect
Pockets
Could
Develops
Sing
Versa
Years
Scotland
Children
Vice
Skills
Who
Initial
Each
I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
Nadia Comaneci
Tough
Important
See
Seeing
More
Gymnastics
Advanced
Combine
Name
Like
Also
Than
Artistic
Artistry
Should
Skills
Stand
Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.
Naomi Alderman
Intelligence
School
Valuable
Emotional
Emotional Intelligence
Economically
Self-Expression
Boy
Problem-Solving
Personally
Skills
Teach
Mediation
Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.
Nathan Kress
Life
Good
Mom
Family
Thought
Three
Young
TV
Would
Memorize
Onto
Had
Perform
Stuff
Performer
Since
Most
Caught
Very
Get
Want
Little
Might
Really
Skills
Acting
Eventually
Early
Two
Early Life
Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
Nathan Myhrvold
Science
Cooking
Knowing
Chef
Chefs
Doing
Replacement
While
Informs
Us
Skills
Cook
Lets
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