Acquired Skills Quotes

#1. Let each citizen contribute their natural talents or acquired skills to the greater benefit of all in the community.

Michael Tellinger

#2. Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

Jeffrey Carver

#3. The culture of good place-making, like the culture of farming, or agriculture, is a body of knowledge and acquired skills. It is not bred in the bone, and if it is not transmitted from one generation to the next, it is lost.

James Howard Kunstler

#4. I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.

Rem Koolhaas

#5. Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.

Neal Boortz

#6. Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Saint Augustine

#7. I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

Tom Glavine

#8. We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.

Robert Genn

#9. Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Chris Evert

#10. My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#11. Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart.

Mary Jo Putney

#12. Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.

Raghu Rai

#13. Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

Janet Yellen

#14. Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Alan Turing

#15. I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus ... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!

Lee Ann Womack

#16. Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.

John Gallagher Jr.

#17. That's the secret--to close your hand on jagged glass, then open it and find a butterfly.

Conrad Wesselhoeft

#18. Always be yourself and speak your truth. Better to allow others to walk away than betray your own soul.

Tonya Sheridan

#19. Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#20. We all grew up as huge wrestling fans, and we need to understand why we liked it so much.

Triple H

#21. The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story.

Roger Wang

#22. The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.

Richard Masur

#23. Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

Barton Gellman

#24. My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.

Jon Katz

#25. The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.

Julie B. Beck

#26. Everyone always sees more than they remember. And sometimes people see things they're not ready to accept.

Kathleen Peacock

#27. The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

Johan Huizinga

#28. Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ... Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ... I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#29. It is the skills that you have acquired through difficulties that will give you the desired result.

Sunday Adelaja

#30. Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

Zig Ziglar

#31. What you need is to let go of that emotion you're holdin' back and what I need is for you to give it to me.

Kristen Ashley

#32. When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it. Feeling can't hurt anyone or get me into trouble, but doing can. (Bunny from picture book)

Cornelia Maude Spelman

#33. How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

Susanna Clarke