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Your distant ancestors loved that shape and found beauty in the skill needed to make it, even before they could put their love into words.
They have a skill, which makes them much less dependent on foreign aid.
And we have a lot of skill and experience, but it's a trick, so how are you supposed to prepare to get through that glass ceiling?
Practical wisdom is the moral will to do the right thing and the moral skill to figure out what the right thing is.
And so the will to do the right thing is just as important as the moral skill of improvisation and exception-finding.
But no matter what, if you were a lawyer or a banker, people dropped what they were doing, no matter what skill set they had, to go pan for gold.
Not a very useful skill, especially when the money runs out.
And you'll see on the vertical your skill at acquiring a second language.
I was like, "Okay, that's social skill."
And so this is one skill of how to hoover up knowledge, one from another.
A second skill is equipoise, the ability to have the serenity to read the biases and failures in your own mind.
What I have come to realize is that sometimes just one fresh perspective, one new skill set, can make the conditions right for something remarkable to happen.
And it reminded me that we're operating a force that must have shared purpose and shared consciousness, and yet he has different experiences, in many cases a different vocabulary, a completely different skill set in terms of digital media than I do and many of the other senior leaders.
The brutal truth is, if we don't have the will or the skill, or even the money that we need to reach children, the most vulnerable children in the world, with something as simple as an oral polio vaccine, then pretty soon, more than 200,000 children are again going to be paralyzed by this disease every single year.
That's why we need to teach listening in our schools as a skill.
This is a body of knowledge, method, skill and principle that we threw in the garbage after World War II and decided we don't need that anymore; we're not going to use it.
(Audience murmurs) But for good behavior, they threw in an occupational therapist who taught me that very essential skill of cross-stitching.
You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community.
When I was growing up, the maximum skill that I was expected to display in a video game was simple hand-eye coordination, a joystick and a firing button.
Kids have to have an extraordinary multitasking skill to be able to achieve things today.
Now, everybody is talking about His Majesty, the Internet, and it is also a very useful skill.
And I was able to return to college because of the senior citizens who invested in me, and also the guide dog and skill set I had gained.
It's very much dependent on the skill and the experience of the midwife.
But then, if we on the African continent don't necessarily know enough about it, then perhaps anybody with the right level of skill and commitment could fly in, spend some time listening and engaging and fly out knowing enough to invent for Africa.
We're a software consulting firm, and we couldn't find a very specific programming skill to help this client deploy a cutting-edge cloud system.
He had completely disarmed their fixation on the programming skill.
Yes, our workforce needs specialized skill, but that skill requires a far less rigorous and formalized education than it did in the past.
People talk to me about the important new skill of making eye contact while you're texting.
For kids growing up, that skill is the bedrock of development.
Which brings us to skill number two a system has.
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