Quotes about Proficiency

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.

Countries - Exploration - Grinding - Industry - Interest - Loss - Partisanship - Policy - Proficiency - Rest - Science - State - Surrounding - Technology - Unions - World

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Ramana Maharshi

Leader, Philosopher,

The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.

Gains - Making - Meaning - Meditation - Mentality - Practice - Proficiency - Qualification - Security

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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Writer, Leader, Former President of Turkey

In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.

Enlightenment - Human - Playing - Proficiency - Real

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Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, Social Critic

Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.

Choice - Existence - Gains - Proficiency - Resignation - Tasks

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H. L. Mencken

Journalist, Cultural Critic

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Husband - Proficiency

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

Academia - Acquiring - Buddhism - Children - Compassion - Forgiving - Judging - Learning - Love - Peace - Proficiency - Value - Vital

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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

Proficiency - Salesman - Teaching

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Novelist

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Mindset - Moderation - Proficiency - Pursuit - Studying

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