A Quote by Chris Evert

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Chris Evert

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Acquired Competitive Gift Inherited Skill Toughness

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Chris Evert
American - Tennis Player
Born: December 21, 1954

Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.

James E. Loehr

He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.

Steve Waugh

Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength or athleticism. Toughness is A SKILL that can be developed & improved.

Jay Bilas

Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.

Jay Bilas

When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.

Leo Strauss

I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill - a skill based in self-esteem.

Caroline Myss

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Peter Drucker

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Thomas Jefferson

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

Emma Goldman

On shipbuilding, on submarine building, warship building, coastal surveillance or small vessel building, we have both public and private sector. The capacities have really been scaled up, and the skill sets, hi-tech skill sets, have been acquired.

Nirmala Sitharaman

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

William Baldwin

Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

Michael Porter

What you're gonna hear Jim Harbaugh say, many in this country are getting their backs up filled with rage and anger and disbelief, and they are threatened by this. Harbaugh believes in toughness in men, he believes in toughness in America, he believes in toughness in American men. You damn well want it in your Special Forces, gang. You want it with the Navy SEALs. You want it all over the United States military. You want manliness, you want toughness, you want bravery, you want courage.