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"We're kind of going through life without understanding the mechanics or how to use the controller or the mouse and keyboard for who we are."
"We teach them resilience and stoicism. We teach them how to handle difficulties in life and how to make something of their life."
"Life comes at us in waves of change we can either predict nor control, but we can learn to surf."
"I know how to live with almost nothing and with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little."
"All of life consists of communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and leadership."
"The brain centers you know. We're meditating to be better at life."
"The goal is am I enjoying my life more, am I getting better at life."
"It's a long-term process, but everything that rugby gives, I think, is so valuable."
"Stress is a poison and it's a natural part of life too, so we better learn how to deal with it because stress is never going to go away."
"Meditation is also a tool. The point of meditation, in the words of the great teacher Emily Fletcher, is not to get good at meditation; it is to get good at life."
"What really makes people successful and powerful in life... is their degree of motivation."
"Therapists do it instead of teaching it as a basic skill that everyone learns in school, which is really where I think it should be taught."
"There's a set of knowledge and skills that are taught to people in therapy, but they're not therapy skills; they're life skills."
"Self-reliance, one of the most important things in life."
"Time management and the discipline that goes along with that are absolutely the most important early life skills that you can acquire."
"Getting good at the skill of time management is a hugely important part of living a meaningful, happy, and fulfilling life."
"The greatest skill in life is not accumulation but contentment."
"The thing about Self-Discipline is that it is necessary for everything you do in your life."
"How about teaching kids how to pay their taxes, how to balance a checkbook, like financial security, survival skills."
"If we're going to be focusing on education, I think that education that actually matters to the individual when they're trying to make their way through life should probably be the focus."
"Observation is one of the keys to life. The essence of learning is observation."
"Risk is an inherent part of life, but understanding and managing it can lead to more informed and beneficial decisions."
"None of us can go through life without a practical working understanding of how money works."
"What your job is first and foremost if you want to really create an amazing life is to get comfortable with navigating confusion."
"You gotta learn how to wash your clothes; you gotta just, you know, grow up."
"Nothing is ever free, and so much of the success in life is just identifying what the cost is and being willing to pay it."
"You can't change others; they're stuck, but you can grow, learn life skills, and become free of the drama."
"You choose your words carefully before you respond in both business and life."
"You learn all these things in life, you become a doctor, a lawyer, you're trained, but you don't know how to achieve happiness, calmness, how to connect, how to just enjoy life in a simple way."
"Endurance mindset, that bit of grit and resolve, sets you up pretty well for everyday life."
"Never split the difference because I think negotiation in life is huge."
"What will change your life is learning how to control and direct your own mind and emotions."
"Negotiation requires confidence... life itself is a great negotiation game."
"You're really doing your children a favor when you train them right."
"Understanding how to find and create great relationships is a key life skill."
"Everybody has to learn about the quadrafit theory about physical health, mental health, spiritual health, and financial health before they leave school."
"We gotta teach young people how to really take ownership of their life."
"The most important thing in life is learning the art of swimming, to keep your head above water in the uncertainties of life."
"The skill of learning how to respond and not react is a life skill."
"A huge number of Americans do not possess even the most basic life skills."
"You're negotiating in your life all the time... you're always negotiating."
"You're not bad at life; you just haven't learned how to live it yet."
"The biggest difference between people who are good at life and bad at life is spread attention versus focused attention."
"You always have time. It's just how you manage it."
"If you want to thrive in your life, if you want to build a great life for yourself, you have to figure stuff out."
"We wanted to just talk about the basics, stuff that we wish we would have learned in school, maybe stuff that we wish maybe someone would have taught us."
"Life is all about making compromises. That's part of learning to live with different people."
"People don't get taught this stuff in school... life skills."
"Understanding what results-oriented thinking is, is not only important in this game but also in life."
"Understanding the art of receiving is as important as the art of giving."
"You are strength training for life so you can be one strong woman."
"Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life."
"Everything in life requires some form of research."
"We feel like if we can teach kids how to deal with anxiety, how to deal with pressure, how to deal with failure, how to deal with success through sport, that in turn helps them to become better people."
"Martial arts give you tools...strategy, emotional control, the capacity for you to visualize and other elements."
"You've learned how to come and move through life with grace."
"It blows my mind that you can go to school for 16 or more years of your life and not learn a thing about how to manage your money."
"What we have are these six-week quests...they're integrative and they'll teach you something about life, personal finance, biology but applied, chemistry, things you're going to really do."
"It's the martial art of work and life, essentially."
"Communication is the most [__] important part almost just in life in general."
"It's like that one saying, you can teach a man to fish... wait, no, you can take a man fishing and he eats for a day, or you can teach a man to fish and he eats for life."
"You can make all the money in the world, but if you don't know what to do with the money, you can still stay broke."
"The basics are really important. That's the steel frame, the foundation for understanding that you need to get through life."
"This is everything they should have taught us in school, and it's pretty simple. If you understand this, you will have a huge advantage in life."
"Life is about managing adversity and learning how to problem solve at a high level."
"As anything in life, as long as you know what to look for, then you know exactly what to focus on."
"Mentality is so, so important in sports and in life as well."
"The point of meditation is to get good at life, not to get good at meditation."
"Every kid should have to at least play one team sport."
"Give a man a fish, eat for a day; teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime."
"The ability to be alone is actually extremely important life skill...you can be alone and you can actually think about yourself."
"Expose young people to the realities of life."
"Discipline is one thing that should be there in every child, every person, every human being. Discipline makes you alive."
"Dreams give people a chance to do dress rehearsal in scenarios that you're going to face in your life."
"If you want three opinions, ask two astronauts."
"Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for the rest of his life."
"Experience counts, whether it's professional work or life adventures."
"One of the most valuable skills you can have is knowing when to give up."
"If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day. If you're teaching a man to fish you feed him for the rest of his life."
"Dagenham and Redbridge are headed to the Champions League final."
"My dad told me if you can't fix a pair of brakes by the time you're 30 on a car, you're an idiot."
"You need to know how to survive and you need to know where you're going."
"You can give a man a fish and he can eat for one day, but you teach him how to fish and he can eat for a lifetime."
"One time he saved me because... he taught me how to pay taxes or that I had to pay taxes."
"And then, I told her that being gay was a gift."
"Practical skills that will let you step away from the drama, the struggle, the fight with your feelings, and move toward a life of peace and meaning and freaking joy right?"
"Power skills are the most important skills that you can learn today that will change your life."
"Did anyone ever teach you how to have friends? No, it's assumed that we'll just pick it up by osmosis."
"Almost everything that you do that will be meaningful will involve the adoption of responsibility."
"There's plenty for you to do to put yourself together."
"You gotta learn how to play, it's not manipulating. It's about being conscious about your moves, knowing what you're doing, planning ahead of time. That's what this is, life is all about planning ahead and being very deliberate about your actions."
"Cooking is a basic life skill, like brushing your teeth."
"Just because you're book smart doesn't mean you're not life smart."
"Learning yourself and knowing what you actually need and what you actually want is such a more productive experience."
"Every good shepherd has to learn to be a hunter first."
"Time management, time management, that's a lesson for all."
"Life is actually about doing a dance and knowing which way to go at the right time."
"Teach him how to fish, don't give him the fish. That is not the way to run a country."
"There's more to teaching a man to fish than just giving them a fishing rod and walking away."
"You gotta learn to be somebody that is reliable."
"Learning your timetable is health. It's a type of health, isn't? To get around this world."
"Therapy is not only for problem-solving; it also gives you tools to do life."
"The skill of pickup is invaluable and priceless."
"Learning to bite the right bullets is so damn important."
"When knowing how to learn is considered a core life skill that no one's actually willing to teach."
"Man, if you can get good at it, it'll serve you so well in your life."
"Conditioning will bleed into other areas of life because if you get used to pushing through and persevering, then when a hard thing comes in your life, you will be able to deal with it."
"Strive for excellence and be as best prepared for what life might throw at you."
"Every man that succeeds in life has self-control."
"Relationships are everything, man. Understand that."
"You have a completely different perspective of stress and pressure when you play poker and then you face stress and pressure in life."
"The ability to manifest and magnetize objects, people, and situations to take visions and dreams, hopes and fantasies, and make them real by attracting them into your life is one of the most important skills people can learn."
"I want to help people learn how to create money and joy and happiness and other things that you want as tools for aliveness and growth."
"We should be able to take care of yourself, understand how to read your lease, or all these basic things."
"Youth should not be kept in the dark about their own lives."
"This is what we do... It's not just about debate but it's about critical thinking, communication, and it's a way of life."
"Discipline is an amazing thing, you know, if you've got discipline when it comes to whatever actually in life."
"Teach your child how to say no when something negative happens when there is something that is wrong you teach your child to say no so they don't just participate in everything being polite sometimes politeness is to say no in a beautiful way."
"Who wants to smash things or run fast? I want to be able to negotiate."
"Learning how to learn is one of those meta skills that no one ever really teaches us, but that can have an enormous impact on our life."
"Human sexuality unlike calculus is something you actually need to know about for the rest of your life."
"We're teaching people personal sovereignty, how to be more discerning, how to make better choices, how to embody your ideals, how to have more integrity."
"Optimizing our Pokemon storage is like unlocking a treasure chest in the game of life."
"You learn how to be frugal, you learn how to fight for everything that you get."
"Getting taught from an early age the basic skills you need to carry you through life."
"Life is a lot easier when you're able to understand why people behave a certain way."
"Most things in life come down to bad communication."
"Teach your kids how to cook. It's a win-win for everybody."
"Meditation and concentration practices... absolutely life-transforming."
"Teach them life purpose and mastery early on."
"We're not born knowing how to create love and create long-lasting relationships." - Matthew Hussey
"Teaching you guys to fish, that's the real opportunity."
"Learning to say no is a great skill in everything you do in life."
"There's some things that you are in the middle in that you're supposed to master."
"McClane is a guy who is good at his job and bad at his life."
"80% of the game in life is mental, 20% physical."
"Sometimes in life you just gotta figure it out find a way."
"Developing more security will take us very, very far in life."
"The most important thing that you can develop and work on for yourself."
"Don't just learn how to earn, learn how to live."
"High schools spend so much time on various subjects you'll probably never use, ignoring basics like mortgages, insurance, or buying your first car or home."
"Once you get out on the road... you need to be able to apply those things that you've learned."
"Relationships and love are a huge, very important pillar of self-improvement."
"It's not all about grades, but preparing them for life."
"Will you pass those skills on to your son? Of being courageous, of being a servant, of being a protector, a provider, of being prepared?"
"If you give a man a fish, you can feed him for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, you can feed him for a lifetime."
"Learning to think for oneself is one of the most important things that a person can learn in this world."
"Teaching kids life skills and good habits is part of our job as mothers."
"These are things just people don't teach you in school, you know? How to have financial intelligence..."
"Lock-picking definitely shatters that illusion, but that gives you a better way to be more critical thinking amongst many other topics in life."
"You have to be personable, you have to be able to adapt to situations that you're put in."
"Getting dressed is a life skill... no different to learning how to play the piano or cook a great meal or paint pictures or speak French."
"The best way to actually help beginners... teach them how to make their bed."
"Learning to soothe calm your anxiety, learning to take action even when you feel anxious, those are the things that are gonna get you ahead in life."
"Success in life really comes from overcoming the natural tendency to procrastinate."
"Love can be learned 100 so if you want to understand why there's so little love in the world it's because we forgot that learn love is a skill that you can learn."
"It wasn't just the money I was earning but also the life skills to help me get ahead in the workforce."
"The key skill is not learning any particular historical fact or geographical fact or physical equation. The key skill is how to keep learning and changing throughout your life."
"Learning to trust in ourselves is one of the most important things we can do in life."
"Ultimately, the key is for the patient to develop the skills to lead a self-directed and organized life."
"MrBeast just gifted Mark, essentially, a comfortable middle class life, which is pretty profound."
"Sales is about everything in life, people will have objections, it's just the nature of the game."
"If you know how to communicate with people... a lot of these basic like 'tricks' are going to carry over into real life conversations."
"Learning balance and managing life, that's the key!"
"Setting boundaries is a good lesson for life in general."
"By teaching him and giving him good tools, he may not get there right now, but you give him the opportunity to apply those tools when you're not around."
"Trusting yourself, trusting your ability to handle life."
"It's these things called business credit cards that they don't really teach us in school or ever really in life."
"I agree, personal finance class in high school."
"Once you realize you are strong, it carries over in life."
"90% of life is confidence. The thing about confidence is no one knows if it's real or not."
"Having your body being able to defend yourself or somebody else... I think it's so important."
"You don't have to have life all figured out, you just have to show up every day."
"Once you learn how to effectively visualize, it will change your life."
"The military prepares you for life's challenges."
"It's what will get you very far in life without even knowing it."
"If there's one thing you want to learn about how to play the game of life well, understand trauma."
"The skills you have determine the quality of your life, driven by self-awareness and self-mastery."
"Once someone agrees with you and acknowledges their mistake, that's your cue to shut up."
"We building these young men up to be adults, to be respectful, to understand how to move, how to live."
"I think this type of deeper thinking has great benefits not just with investing or health but with all areas of your life."
"Being adaptable and embracing change is crucial in a constantly evolving world."
"Learn to teach a person how to fish and don't give them a fish."
"The greatest gift I can give my child is a long attention span."
"Experience is very important in life, and intuition is just experience distilled."
"That's what we're about: teaching people how to fish, not hand you a fish."
"The art of observation affects everything that we do."
"Believe that having all the money is considered success and that's what we tie our worth to, but that can be taken from you at any point. Having soft skills."
"Therapy gives you the tools you need to succeed at life."
"Change is inevitable, it is unavoidable and it must constantly and consistently be faced, dealt with, and navigated."
"Financial education isn't really emphasized in the school system, so many people grow up not knowing how to properly manage their money."
"There is real wisdom required in knowing what to do and knowing what not to do."
"The number one skill that you need if you are going to change your life for the better."
"If you're a casual player with no interest in being competitive and just want to enjoy the world, do some life skills and explore, Black Desert is as good as ever."
"I had to teach myself how to cook in my 20s I had to teach myself everything once I became an adult I'm like wait why didn't I learn any of this stuff it was because you're at the school you almost a little sponge brain."
"You have to learn how to handle things on smaller levels so that you'll be able to handle things on bigger levels."
"Learning to operate from the heart is one of the single most important things we can do."
"Parenting is the most difficult job in the world."
"Building habits is the most difficult thing to do... sometimes it just doesn't align with."
"Confidence is so key in life in so many ways."