Life Skills Quotes:

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

- Martin Heidegger

source: Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

topic: Giving, Life Skills

Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Attitude, Men, Skills, Material Things, Life Skills

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

- Troy Vincent

topic: Sports, Kids, Skills, Life Skills

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

- Josh Lanyon

source: Josh Lanyon (2011). “Come Unto These Yellow Sands”, p.21, Samhain Publishing

topic: Thinking, Objectivity, Skills, Life Skills, Critical Thinking

Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

- Bret Morrison

topic: Communication, Skills, Empowering, Life Skills

Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.

- Matthieu Ricard

topic: Maturity, Skills, Long, Life Skills

We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

- David Lindsay-Abaire

topic: Hard Work, Opportunity, Thinking, Life Skills

When children are truly involved in the scientific process they gain understanding, knowledge, and life skills. They deepen their awareness of what's going on around them and how others contribute to their well-being.

- Lilian Katz

source: Source: www.scholastic.com

topic: Children, Skills, Understanding Knowledge, Life Skills

Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.

- Jamie Oliver

topic: Reading, Writing, School, Life Skills

Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.

- Sharon Lechter

source: FaceBook post by Sharon Lechter from Oct 04, 2013

topic: Children, Skills, Grandparent, Life Skills

Why can't it be a curriculum? Why can't it be a life skill that they learn just to look after themselves in terms of a healthy way of eating? I think we need to shake up that whole curriculum and give them a little bit more of a lifestyle early on, before they leave school at 18.

- Gordon Ramsay

source: Source: variety.com

topic: School, Thinking, Skills, Life Skills

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

- Daniel Goleman

topic: Motivational, Father, Skills, Life Skills

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

- Meryl Streep

source: Barnard College Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

topic: Play, Skills, Acting, Life Skills, Valuable Life

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

- Kelly Carlin-McCall

topic: Real, Artist, Skills, Life Skills

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

- Young Jeezy

topic: Thinking, Skills, People, When Bad Things Happen, Life Skills

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

- Meryl Streep

topic: Skills, Pretending, Valuable, Life Skills, Valuable Life

Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.26, Harper Collins

topic: Thinking, Skills, Slavery, Life Skills, Physical Activity

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

- Martha Beck

topic: Skills, Grace, Dull, Life Skills

Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.

- Tony Hawk

topic: Skills, People, Giving, Life Skills

Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body?

- William Katt

topic: Skills, Cooking, Needs, Life Skills

When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills to really getting over my dad's death. If I didn't have that, I would have lost it.

- Anthony Pettis

topic: Dad, Self, Skills, Life Skills, Taekwondo

I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach more than basketball. You teach life skills. The teaching part of it is something that I am passionate about. I look forward to every practice. A lot of people say well, I enjoy coaching, but I see myself as more as a teacher.

- Pat Summitt

source: Source: www.cyinterview.com

topic: Basketball, Teacher, Teaching, Life Skills, Love Teaching

Swimming has given me a lot. It's given me a respect for people and different cultures around the world when I've been competing abroad. I've learnt many life skills and met so many friends around the world that I might not have had otherwise. I'm focused and driven and I guess swimming has made me that way.

- Liam Tancock

topic: Swimming, Skills, People, Life Skills

Education does loads of things for girls that wont surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

- Richard E. Robbins

topic: Girl, Self Esteem, Skills, Life Skills, Important Life

Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.

- Martina McBride

topic: Thinking, Skills, May, Life Skills

I’ve come to believe that connecting is one of the most important business—and life—skill sets you’ll ever learn. Why? Because, flat out, people do business with people they know and like. Careers—in every imaginable field—work the same

- Keith Ferrazzi

source: Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.19, Crown Business

topic: Believe, Skills, Careers, Life Skills

There are lots of positives to come out of playing all sports, not just football. Team games can offer you different life skills than an individual sport can. Football improves your time management - you have to be places on time and disciplined in terms of training.

- Hope Powell

source: Source: www.bbc.co.uk

topic: Sports, Football, Team, Life Skills, Different Life

I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill.

- Erin Heatherton

topic: Responsibility, Skills, Secret, Life Skills, Victoria's Secret

There's a side to reality TV that is part education, as well. I've seen that since doing "MasterChef Junior," in terms of the effect it has on the confidence given these young kids from 8 to 13, a quality life skill. Even if they never pursue cooking as a job or a career, just learning how to cook for yourself sets you up in a good place.

- Gordon Ramsay

source: Source: variety.com

topic: Jobs, Kids, Reality, Masterchef, Life Skills

I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.

- Joey Cheek

topic: Sports, Fall, Thinking, Life Skills