Skills Quotes

I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do directing. [...] If I were able to, I'd like to get into that.

An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure.

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.

I feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there's always room for improvement.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

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.

Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

Most of the strength and the leadership skills and the decisiveness, the resoluteness that I think America was craving from Donald Trump, from a leader, is the same in public as it is in private.

Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.

NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to our own well-being and the well-being of others.

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill.

Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

Tools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user.

In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.

Drinking coffee for instant relaxation? That's like drinking alcohol for instant motor skills.

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.

If you’re so forgetful that you’re incapable of remembering that a co-worker isn’t pregnant on three separate occasions in as many months, I worry about your memory and cognition skills.

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.

Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.

A bullfighter must have courage, skill, and grace. And of these courage is the most important.