Skills Quotes

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

Big egos have little ears.

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.

Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with.

Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.

If you're a skilled player, you want to use your skill, not just hit the puck.

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

Skills are freedom. Get skilled up!

Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.

The reasons I never set out to do a talk show is they're formulaic. People come out, tell jokes and read questions. But that's not what I do, and we built the show around my skill set.

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.

Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

Let their music skill speak for [itself]. If they are producing good tracks and are resonating with their fans, or even gaining new fans, then that's great.

I'm just broadening my craft and stretching my skills a little bit in different directions.

Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.