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Conquer the angry man by love. -- Gautama Buddha
Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. -- Shiv Khera
The less you speak, the more you will hear. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer. -- Scott Adams
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. -- Shiv Khera
Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training. -- Nido R Qubein
In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like? -- Susan Cain
I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing. -- Zooey Deschanel
Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth. -- Jack Welch
I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things. -- Jamie Oliver
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser. -- Garry Kasparov
We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum ... not only did better in terms of people skills, that they managed their emotions, they were less violent and more caring, but they actually did better on their academic achievement tests. -- Linda Lantieri
One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. You have to learn how to talk to people and how to creatively achieve the same goals. I think it just hones your people skills. -- Cat Deeley
I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful. -- Dave Ramsey
First create jobs, and then provide skills to people. -- Kumar Mangalam Birla
I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people. -- Joe Morgan
The single biggest resource India has is people and skill. -- Uday Kotak
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills. -- Stuart Pearce
The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn. -- Thomas Menino
In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills. -- John Roos
I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills. -- Diane Keaton
There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how. -- Al Seckel
A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people. -- Titus Welliver
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences. -- John Ortberg
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. -- John Milius
Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills. -- Ryan Holmes
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do. -- Jim Lehrer
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent. -- Ray Dolby
Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others. -- Dale Dauten
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. -- Marvin Bower
We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more. -- Chris Martin
Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill. -- Sarah Silverman
We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before. -- Jeffrey Skilling
Mentoring is passion for skills and knowledge-transfer to young people -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries. -- Sunil Bharti Mittal
I'm taking my skills to different people's homes that have stoves for it. -- Snoop Dogg
To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills. -- Duncan Bannatyne
Almost all the people who lived in Atlantis meditated and had powerful psychic skills. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Almost all the people who lived in Atlantis meditated and had powerful psychic skills. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life. -- Jonathan Gottschall
Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them. -- Warren G. Bennis
Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality. -- Richard Branson
Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills. -- J. Maarten Troost
Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero. -- Ghulam Nabi Azad
Skateistan's not just about skating. It's giving people life skills and hope for the future. -- Tony Hawk
People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills. -- Teresa Amabile
A lot of people didn't get to see Butler's skills throughout the course of the season. -- Tom Brady
Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most. -- Edward Abbey
...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well. -- Stephen R. Covey
...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well. -- Stephen R. Covey
The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap. -- Greg Palast
Extraordinary potential exists in all of us. With the right environment, resources, skills and knowledge, 'ordinary' people can produce extraordinary results. -- Kevin Eikenberry
People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick. -- Richard Thaler
Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether. -- Jim Butcher
Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. -- Jamais Cascio
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people. -- Julia Gillard
Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them. -- Anthony Pratt
Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people. -- Sylvester Stallone
It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills. -- Naveen Jain
Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give. -- Barbara Bush
At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time. -- Adam Pally
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. -- Dave Barry
People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills. -- Tracy Morgan
When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along. -- Jeff Lindsay
Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills. -- Seymour Papert
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. -- Hugh Mackay
People with highly transferable skills may be specialists in certain areas, but they're also incredible generalists - something businesses that want to grow need. -- Leah Busque
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. -- Brent Weeks
Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas. -- Charlotte Bunch
Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities. -- Elizabeth Zimmermann
About 800 million people in India are below the age of 35 years. Their aspirations, energy, enterprise and skills will be the force for India's economic transformation. -- Narendra Modi
Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier. -- Denis Waitley
There are people who have great skills, who do great things, but don't embody the whole animal that is the fight game like I do. -- Conor McGregor
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone ! -- Lyn St. James
Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it. -- Tara Strong
People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support -- Warren G. Bennis
There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people. -- Benjamin Booker
There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future. -- Hillary Clinton
There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership. -- Rick Santorum
In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience. -- James C. Collins
People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell. -- Shiv Khera
Getting or giving anything is about social skills. The world is about being comfortable where you are and making people comfortable, and that's what social skills are -- Penelope Trunk
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father. -- Daniel Goleman
A strategist is one who helps people relax into their creative skills. People won't rally unless an idea is beautiful... Everyone is hanging on every word... Amazing. -- Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise. -- Ryan Adams
My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills. -- Justin Kan
Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way. -- Marc Benioff
They served to remind Cabal - should a reminder ever be necessary - why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise. -- Jonathan L. Howard
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
People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet! -- Deborah Bull
It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it. -- Ai Weiwei
If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills. -- Helen Fisher
You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills. -- Benjamin Percy
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
People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard. -- Mark Zuckerberg
I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life. -- Henri Nouwen
I feel very strongly about making work pay, about getting people transitioned from welfare to work. Get people skills they need, help they need, so they can get on the ladder of life. -- Paul Ryan

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