"A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce."

-- Rod Blagojevich

#Successful Quotes #Skills Quotes #Focus Quotes

“In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.”
“Africa needs access to markets.”
“Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings.”
“Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.”

Source : The Guardian, September 30, 1988.
“Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradoxâ€”the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .”
“You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps”
“This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.”
“An honest book is almost as good as a friend.”

Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.261, Macmillan

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