Skills Quotes
Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.
Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.
He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.
A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen
I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.
There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.
The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.
The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.
Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty weird.
I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.
I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.
Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.
All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.
I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.
Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!
Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.
Having something like an Australia points-based system means we control immigration and bring in the skills that we need.
I'm blessed with very fast memorization skills, so I don't have to read it too far in advance.
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
Focusing on the score attaches you to the result. Focusing on the process lets you access your greatest skill and increases your fun.
The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.
Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.
many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.
You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.
What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.