Quotes About Skills

#1. If you are an office worker, exercise is not simply an antidote to stress or sedentary living. It is a training for the labour of work itself. It can help concentration, problem-solving skills and energy levels.

Damon Young

#2. What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

Frank Miller

#3. In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

Alison Moyet

#4. If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

Tony Dungy

#5. I began to more fully embrace the trying of new skills when I asked myself, Would I rather protect my ego or do stuff in life?

Chris Hardwick

#6. For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

Ken Ham

#7. People with Asperger's or autism expend a huge amount of mental energy each day coping with socializing, anxiety, change, sensory sensitivity, daily living skills and so on.

Laura James

#8. What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.

Alice Hoffman

#9. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

Guy Kawasaki

#10. Check the cover letter. In a cover letter, you get actual communication instead of a list of skills, verbs, and years of irrelevance.

Jason Fried

#11. If she can be stolen, then she was never yours to begin with. And do not insult my skills or question my ability to come through. I always come through.

J.A. Huss

#12. If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.

Jay Cassidy

#13. You saved my life today, with your boyish skills. He gave her another one of his wry half smiles that made her insides flutter.

Melanie Dickerson

#14. All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement.

Jerry Lynch

#15. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

Anita Roddick

#16. Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

Richard Branson

#17. I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

Cat Deeley

#18. Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

Richard Louv

#19. I think it's fair to say I am a writer. I'm using this journal to get better: to hone my skills, to collect details and observations. To show don't tell and all that other writerly crap.

Gillian Flynn

#20. My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.

Lee Atwater

#21. People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

Warren Buffett

#22. Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

Louis C.K.

#23. God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more."

Tom Callahan

#24. Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

Jeff Hawkins

#25. I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

Madhuri Dixit

#26. A manager must always provide the employees opportunities to continuously improve their skills and reassure them that they have a promising future.

Abhishek Ratna

#27. The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English.

Paul Clitheroe

#28. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

Sharon Creech

#29. To the liberal class, every big economic problem is really an education problem, a failure by the losers to learn the right skills and get the credentials everyone knows you'll need in the society of the future.

Thomas Frank

#30. Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

F. Sionil Jose

#31. The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

Kirby Dick

#32. Trading is not easy, and it takes years of conscientious practice to master the necessary skills. It also takes developing positive habits to succeed in trading. There is no shortcut to this, and no one should dream about getting rich overnight by stepping into the trading business.

Jody Samuels

#33. Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.

David Galenson

#34. I knew that Steve Harvey had a good, solid message to share, and I wanted to use my knowledge and skills as a relationship author to help him bring his message to those who were willing to receive it.

Denene Millner

#35. Peter Forsberg's skills and determination made him one of the most powerful forwards in the NHL during the best years of his career. Hearing of his retirement is sad news but one day every athlete has to come to this decision. He should be very proud of all he accomplished throughout his career.

Patrick Roy

#36. The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

Bruce Lee

#37. Sometimes coaches can teach you new information, new strategies and skills;

Anthony Robbins

#38. Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills.

Henry Mintzberg

#39. I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

Janet Fish

#40. In this value driven and 'connection economy', skills & talents alone are dime-a-dozen, you need to be able to add value to others and build great connections

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#41. I'm one of those introverts with well-honed social skills, and I have even danced on the occasional table, but I have felt sheer panic when my exhaustion precedes my exit. It's like the Cinderella story with a twist: I want to get out of there and into my duds before midnight - or ten, or eight.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#42. Our schools should teach children the skills to work with others- cooperative learning can be effective when practiced well and in moderation- but also the time and training they need to deliberately practice on their own.

Susan Cain

#43. You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

Robyn Davidson

#44. I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have.

Ronald Reagan

#45. Well, you see, Mr. Martson," Tray began, flashing a charming smile, "this isn't what it looks like." "It isn't? he asked skeptically. "No, you see Taryn thought it'd be a good idea to practice her climbing skills." "On you?" Mr. Martson supplied dryly. "Yeah,

Tijan

#46. Besides, Watson," he added, with a glint of humour in his grey eyes, "you, after all, are a man of the world. We must put your skills to use, for there is no greater tragedy on God's green earth than that of untapped talent.

Lyndsay Faye

#47. If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.

Helen Fisher

#48. Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

Jim Rohn

#49. Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.

Joel Fuhrman

#50. The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

James Heckman

#51. And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical.

Jane Mayer

#52. My home skills were just short of negligible ... p. 13

Craig Johnson

#53. You replaced me with a shaved poodle?"
"He's got mad skills."
Derek's eyebrows crept up.
"He can vomit and urinate at the same time and he doesn't make fun of my car.

Ilona Andrews

#54. Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

Kristen Stewart

#55. at your job, if you haven't mastered the skills of your job or aren't seeking to do so, you aren't serving your employer and coworkers as well as you should. You might even be making the work of others harder. Mediocre work is not Christian! We are to love our neighbor as ourselves

Matt Perman

#56. 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

#57. 'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants' skills.

Richard Corliss

#58. What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

Norman Cousins

#59. Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.

Goh Chok Tong

#60. If your heart is not right, no one cares about your skills.

Mark Miller

#61. How was it that he could remember not remembering, and yet the fugitive facts themselves remained so elusive? How could he misplace the skills of a lifetime? Where did such knowledge go?

Geraldine Brooks

#62. Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

#63. Sehwag shall be remembered for his explosive and natural cricketing skills. Wish him all success on his birthday.

Rajeev Shukla

#64. Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

Theodore Sturgeon

#65. The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.

Noam Chomsky

#66. I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got a degree in drama, so I know about stories, characterizations, plot arcs, and the like. Lots of game designers can do one or the other: I've got the skills for both.

Brendan Myers

#67. When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.

Frank Gehry

#68. Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

Chanakya

#69. It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.

Bryce Courtenay

#70. A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#71. To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition

Elizabeth Gilbert

#72. We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.

Colin Salmon

#73. In fact, she rather liked it, and found that their mutual lack of language skills freed them from the banalities of conversation.

Violet Kupersmith

#74. The lesson is simple: it is absolutely crucial to give your staff the time and opportunity to keep their skills sharp. If you do not, then your organization will fall behind in the digital arena.

Anonymous

#75. Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.

Ryan Holmes

#76. Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down

Bruce Lee

#77. I only take on hardened criminals," George said. "A woman on a rampage is way beyond my skills.

Anonymous

#78. Almost all the people who lived in Atlantis meditated and had powerful psychic skills.

Frederick Lenz

#79. I think we can really use magic in a way never attempted before to inspire these children, help rally their self-confidence and even help them develop social skills. This is a national effort, not just here in Las Vegas. I know we can give them a true passion.

Criss Angel

#80. There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.

Mizuko Ito

#81. I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

Peter Mandelson

#82. Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

Warren Farrell

#83. In most companies, the best project management skills are found in the IT department, because they work on a project basis all the time.

Dave McNab

#84. Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton.

Tina Brown

#85. The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Harold S. Geneen

#86. I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV.

Sandra Bullock

#87. I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.

Erik Naggum

#88. Being an effective person-centred counsellor is not so much a matter of possessing skills and knowledge, but of having a particular set of deeply-held values and beliefs and then being able to express these qualities in interactions with other people.

John McLeod

#89. Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

Jim Rohn

#90. Through Economic Action Plan 2015, our Government will continue to help create jobs, encourage skills development and balance the budget in 2015. I look forward to hearing Canadians' ideas on what we can do to further support and grow the economy for the benefit of all Canadians.

Kevin Sorenson

#91. When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.
And there's nothing wrong with my skills.

Jonathan Maberry

#92. New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.

Josh Lewsey

#93. Today however, a new generation must arise that will take their works further. This generation must rely less on signs and wonders, but rely more on developing skills and building industries.

Sunday Adelaja

#94. Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

John Updike

#95. I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

Phyllis Diller

#96. The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.

Robin Williams

#97. There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

Jeff Bezos

#98. The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.

Alva Noe

#99. To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly.

Carol S. Dweck

#100. If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips