Top 76 Learn A Skill Quotes
#1. I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.
Charlotte Riley
#2. I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.
Mindy Kaling
#3. I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
Diane Cilento
#4. Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.
Derren Brown
#5. What separates Masters from others is often something surprisingly simple. Whenever we learn a skill, we frequently reach a point of frustration - what we are learning seems beyond our capabilities. Giving in to these feelings, we unconsciously quit on ourselves before we actually give up.
Robert Greene
#6. A fast food job, for most people, should be an entry level position. If you see no path for advancement beyond that, it's time to take a real fast look at your human capital and learn a skill that will make you more money.
William J. Bernstein
#7. Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
Karen Finerman
#8. We were two girls who got lucky, and luck's not a skill that anyone can learn
Ally Carter
#10. Get a child interested in learning a skill while young and they will remember forever.
Sybrina Durant
#12. Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
Ray Dolby
#13. Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.
Roger Lewin
#14. In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know three, or at most five, kata.
Gichin Funakoshi
#15. The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.
Robin Hoyle
#16. Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.
John C. Maxwell
#17. False enthusiasm does not come easily to six-year-olds ... although, sad to say, it's a skill most of us learn fairly rapidly.
Stephen King
#18. Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing.
If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.
Brian Tracy
#19. My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.
Michael Jordan
#20. Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.
Michael Symon
#21. We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
Alison Gopnik
#22. A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.
Edward Young
#23. You're not born with confidence; it is a skill to learn.
Ehab Atalla
#24. I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.
Jeremy Renner
#25. You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.
Karen Armstrong
#26. Tolerance isn't a trait, it's a skill. Learn it. Use it. Embrace it. We are all perfect in our own way ... just as God intended.
Shelley K. Wall
#27. Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.
Anousheh Ansari
#28. Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Norman Vincent Peale
#29. A old man once told me "you live and you learn". We'll I've learnt that the blade sword is infinite, I've also learnt how to make a really good yogurt although this is not a skill I plan to employ at this point in time.
Terry Pratchett
#30. UX Design is a practical yet very thoughtful discipline, and a UX Designer's single most important skill is the ability to learn and adapt.
Chad Camara
#31. Eating well is a skill. We learn it. Or not. It's something we can work on at any age. Sugar is not love. But it can feel like it.
Bee Wilson
#32. Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me.
Eric Balfour
#33. Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.
Rick Pitino
#34. Shooting well with the rifle is the highest kind of skill, for the rifle is the queen of weapons; and it is a difficult art to learn.
Theodore Roosevelt
#35. When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.
Joanne Harris
#36. I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.
Chris Van Allsburg
#37. The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
willingness to learn is a choice.
Brian Herbert
#38. I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.
John C. Reilly
#39. Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to real life is not something we get, but something we give.
J.P. Moreland
#40. It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.
William Kittredge
#41. The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.
Jorge Paulo Lemann
#42. I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a third of it, but I think I'm getting to a section that may be beyond my skill level.
Charlie Day
#43. Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life's turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.
Amanda Ripley
#44. I think Chris Roberts is one of them, Will Wright's another, Peter Molyneux is another. They clearly exist, but on the whole, I think that the design talent in our industry is dramatically lower than we need, as an industry. It's a very hard skill to learn.
Richard Garriott
#45. Rapid reading is not a difficult skill to learn.
Peter Kump
#46. Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything
T. Harv Eker
#47. Willpower is a learnable skill, something that can be taught the same way kids learn to do math and say thank you.
Charles Duhigg
#48. Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn
Stephen Hawking
#49. Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. It comes from the heart.
Wynona Mulcaster
#50. In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
John Naisbitt
#51. I don't believe that children can develop in a healthy way unless they feel that they have value apart from anything they own or any skill that they learn. They need to feel they enhance the life of someone else, that they are needed. Who, better than parents, can let them know that?
Fred Rogers
#52. I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.
Blake Lively
#53. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents.
Ashley Bell
#55. Whether you want to learn a new skill or simply be better at the job you were hired to do, it's now your job to train and invest in yourself.
Reid Hoffman
#56. Make your mistakes with confidence. It is the only way you are going to learn anything. Never be afraid to do a skill, no matter how simple or hard it may seem someone has done it, and so can you, With enough committed practice and confidence.
John Kessel
#57. Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.
Jay Bilas
#58. Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself.
Magda Gerber
#59. When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European racing culture, and that's part of the fun of the gig. You learn to learn. Your real skill as a director is being a learner and an observer. You're constantly learning another thing in context.
Jon Favreau
#60. Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.
Seth Godin
#61. Common sense is a skill to learn, and it is the foundation of all good business.
Ehab Atalla
#62. If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.
David Elkind
#63. People think that it is important to learn by assisting the great photographers. I say that is a big mistake. Be happy; just learn from any little guy. Learn how to use the camera - you don't need anything else. You can't be taught the real skill anyway.
Peter Lindbergh
#64. He will conclude that love can endure only when one is unfaithful to its beguiling opening ambitions; and that for his relationships to work he will need to give up on the feelings that got him into them in the first place. He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.
Alain De Botton
#65. Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.
Brian Tracy
#66. Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
John Milius
#67. Your best thing for you to do is learn how to listen and follow positive guidelines which is a skill and to be determined and consistent and you're going to go places in life not only whether you sing but you're getting a basic finish background to do anything you want to do in life.
Maxine Powell
#68. Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.
David Mamet
#69. To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#70. As a decision maker, you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you. As the CEO, however, you cannot rely solely on this information. You also need to 'dip' down into your organization and learn directly from employees at all levels and virtually all skill sets.
Scott Weiss
#71. Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn.
Josh Linkner
#72. Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.
Frans G. Bengtsson
#73. I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.
Guy Kawasaki
#74. * Intelligence is quickness to learn. Ability is the skill to apply what is learned. Competence is the ability and the desire to apply what is learned. Desire is the attitude that makes a skillful person competent. Many skillful people are incompetent. Ability without the right attitude is wasted.
Shiv Khera
#75. When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.
William J. Clinton
#76. Growing up, I always wanted to always be something new. I thought if I was an actress, I would have a chance at doing it all. What's incredible about this profession is every role you play; you learn a different skill set. That really appealed to me.
Ashley Bell
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