Creativity and originality are more important than technical skill.

创造力和独创性比专门技术更为重要。

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Most jobs have some technical skill components.

大部分工作有技术技能的成分。

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This is not a technical skill, but a skill nonetheless that will take a programmer far.

耐心并非技术技巧，但却能让程序员走的更远。

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Printing is an age-old industry, but facilitating orders online--as Keane's company VistaPrint does--demands a bit of technical skill.

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Because a poor black kid who gets good grades, has a part time job and becomes proficient with a technical skill will go to college.

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These are life skills, not just academic skills, and it is the quality of writing and thinking that separates employees with identical technical skill sets.

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