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  • Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros -- Stuart Briscoe
  • I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. -- Henry James
  • Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? -- Harriet Martineau
  • When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. -- James Dean
  • To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. -- Earl Warren
  • You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop. -- Derek Jacobi
  • I have no academic qualifications whatsoever. -- David Irving
  • The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic. -- Henry Ford II
  • The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. -- Stendhal
  • Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ. -- Vance Havner
  • People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom -- Peter Ustinov
  • Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications. -- Tom Hiddleston
  • They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people. -- George Weah
  • Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness. -- Guy de Maupassant
  • I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character. -- Michel Gondry
  • Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am never going to give them back. -- Joey Comeau
  • The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. -- Marcel Duchamp
  • The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions. -- Dave Smalley
  • When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived alone by selling gum on the streets. For ten years, I lived like a fly. I was eventually able to graduate elementary and middle school through qualification examinations and the first thing that I ever liked was music. -- Choi Sung-bong
  • The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned. -- J. K. Rowling
  • The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications. -- Samuel Richardson
  • I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13. -- Sean Connery
  • People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. -- Peter Ustinov
  • There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that. -- John Oliver
  • At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility. -- Hedda Hopper
  • Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination. -- David A. Bednar
  • If we can modernise the workforce, make them better qualified, have this framework of qualifications, then I think they have a very good case for more money. -- Estelle Morris
  • The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. -- John le Carre
  • Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. -- Zaha Hadid
  • We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
  • There's more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case. -- Terry Wogan
  • Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus. -- Mark McKinnon
  • We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. -- Brit Hume
  • I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me. -- Robbie Williams
  • Most often, qualifications are defined by the credentials of the person who last held the job. If that is to continue to be the litmus test, white males will continue to be the top choice on any list, if the interviewer is also a white male. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Yes, my fellow citizens, despite what the original Constitution of the United States says about the qualifications for statehood and the guarantee of representation in Congress, by every measure that truly matters in America (bigness, crowdedness, awesomeness, Texasness), Nebraska doesn't deserve its star on the American flag. -- Kevin Bleyer
  • Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! It's the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance. -- Tullian Tchividjian
  • For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office. -- Noah Feldman
  • During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world. -- Simon Hoggart
  • It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.' -- Curtis Stone
  • Personal qualities are much more important than qualifications. -- P.K. Shaw
  • Ron Teigen Sr. and Donald Trump Sr. both have matching political qualifications: zero. -- Chrissy Teigen
  • I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels. -- Simon Cowell
  • Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. -- John Stuart Mill
  • It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are. -- Jaggi Vasudev
  • In one way I would like to teach, but I have no qualifications to teach Westerners. -- Tenzin Palmo
  • Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself. -- Chogyam Trungpa
  • You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician. -- James Garner
  • the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. -- Aristotle
  • Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken. -- Bernie Siegel
  • Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust. -- Matthias B. Tallmadge
  • Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life. -- J. K. Rowling
  • People make fools out of themselves in all sorts of ways. No particular qualifications or particular criteria are necessary. -- Jackie Mason
  • Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel. -- David Platt
  • The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. -- Knute Rockne
  • I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers. -- Joe Torre
  • I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test. -- John McCain
  • A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track. -- Carly Fiorina
  • I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread. -- Dexter Fletcher
  • With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
  • Hating is a full time job with no benefits, only an acquired type can do it. I thank God I didnt meet the qualifications. -- Behdad Sami
  • I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives. -- Roger Lewis
  • All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise. -- John Amery
  • I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications. -- Alberto Gonzales
  • If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job. -- Roger Ailes
  • By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people. -- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people. -- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour. -- Stanley Schmidt
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  • All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities. -- Charles Hartshorne
  • Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must. -- Claude C. Hopkins
  • I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist. -- Dylan Moran
  • for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all. -- John F. Kennedy
  • Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. -- George Eliot
  • The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin. -- Alphonso Jackson
  • I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron. -- Sue Townsend
  • I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings. -- John Burnside
  • I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications. -- Frederick Lenz
  • The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Accomplished a bit more for Bush than for Gore only because there were more question marks for Bush. I think he established that he possesses at least the minimum qualifications for being president. -- Stuart Rothenberg
  • It's comprised of both Republicans and Democrats and their membership in this club known as the establishment, party affiliation is second or third in terms of your qualifications to be in the club. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • It's comprised of both Republicans and Democrats and their membership in this club known as the establishment, party affiliation is second or third in terms of your qualifications to be in the club. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast. -- Carrie Fisher
  • This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. -- Alexander Hamilton
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