Skills Quotes

ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.

My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.

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.

many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.

Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.

The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.

The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

Focusing on the score attaches you to the result. Focusing on the process lets you access your greatest skill and increases your fun.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

I'm blessed with very fast memorization skills, so I don't have to read it too far in advance.

Having something like an Australia points-based system means we control immigration and bring in the skills that we need.

The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

All things require skill but an appetite.

To keep demands as much skill as to win.

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.

Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

Working hard is a skill you have to nurture!

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.

All skills are learnable.

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.

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.

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.

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!

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.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.

Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.

About 800 million people in India are below the age of 35 years. Their aspirations, energy, enterprise and skills will be the force for India's economic transformation.

Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by.

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.