Skills Quotes

One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.

Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.

There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another tax bracket.

There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications.

It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!

Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

I went - I had designed - in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies.

You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth.

Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.

My twerking skills are for the bedroom, not for the club.

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.

Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.