Skills Quotes

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.

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.

I joined the Young Liberals when I was 16 and it was a good way for me to understand how the Liberal Party worked and to learn basic political skills and techniques.

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.

I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

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.

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

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.

The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

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.

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.

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

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.

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

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

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.

New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.

the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

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.

Skills are freedom. Get skilled up!

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

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

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.

One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

The intelligence gap is essentially a shortage of executives with superior thinking skills who are needed by every business, as compared with the number of decision-making positions available.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.