Adam Smith Quotes, Division Of Labor Quotes, Skills Quotes

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

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There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

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The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills

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Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

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Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

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

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

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The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.

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....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

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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.

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

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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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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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People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

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It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

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When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

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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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