Skills Quotes
We can and must use our combined skills at every opportunity available to address climate change.
If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.
It's not a diet, it's a way of life that teaches you better skills. For years, I felt like I could never have ice cream, but now I can eat ice cream occasionally!
Sport teaches you about commitment and to dedicate yourself. Whether you make it to the top or not, sport gives you great skills that you can use in life.
Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.
Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.
To run any system, you've got to grow your personnel and your players have to have a certain skill set.
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.
Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.
I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.
It's true that the skills required to be a conman are the same as those required for being an actor. Though those skills are in the service of something a bit more noble with acting, I hope.
The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.
I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.
Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.
Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.
Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan That's the fate of every Magpie While Mam perfects her game show skills Giving talks at the WI
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.
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.
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 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.
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.