Top 100 Skill Quotes
#1. The goal is always the same: to break a skill into its component pieces (circuits), memorize those pieces individually, then link them together in progressively larger groupings (new, interconnected circuits).
Dan Coyle
#2. Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.
John F. Kennedy
#3. Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines
an actress
say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#4. Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.
Oliver DeMille
#5. I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness ... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty ...
Georges Braque
#6. The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set.
Chris Matakas
#7. I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.
Duane Swierczynski
#8. Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.
Jonathan Franzen
#9. Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
Walter Lord
#10. I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#13. Whatever you are passionate about, there is some skill associated with it and there's some service associated with it. Go for it, and don't worry about the money all the time.
Deepak Chopra
#14. You don't need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality
Michael Malone
#15. In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
Aaron Lazar
#16. Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.
Luther Burbank
#17. There was a great deal of skill in her smile, a smile meant to make a boy who had done nothing with his life make him feel accomplis and remarkable-vile even.
Sherry Thomas
#18. Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Norman Vincent Peale
#20. I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
Karen Joy Fowler
#21. Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
P. J. O'Rourke
#22. Use a gun that works every time. As George Washington said, 'All skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket.
Nelson DeMille
#23. 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.
John F. Kennedy
#24. Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
Ai Weiwei
#25. 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
#26. A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except to be able to grow in rows
Doug Larson
#27. This is because the greatest problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her (John 13:34).
Gloria Furman
#28. In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements for even basic participation in an information-based, technology-dependent economy and society.
Adam J. Banks
#29. Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy.
But you can't buy fighting spirit.
Robert A. Heinlein
#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. Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be.
Keri Hulme
#32. Willpower isn't just a skill. It's a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there's less power left over for other things.
Charles Duhigg
#33. If the rest of my life were anything like the last couple of days, then that new skill might be the only thing keeping me out of traction. Back
Rachel Rawlings
#34. Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
Bergen Evans
#35. The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.
Colin Firth
#36. Strong families are not an accident ... They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.
Julie B. Beck
#37. 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
#38. The ability to take data - to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it - that's going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades.
O'Reilly Radar Team
#39. All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.
Stephen Spender
#40. You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.
Cornel West
#41. 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
#42. Hobbies that demand skill, habits that set goals and limits, personal interests, and especially inner discipline help to make leisure what it is supposed to be - a chance for re-creation.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#43. I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he creates.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#44. Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.
Edmund Burke
#45. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard
#46. Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.
Stephen Covey
#47. a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a 'function', one cog in a machine.
Yukio Mishima
#48. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.
Veronica Roth
#49. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
Rumi
#50. 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.
Kate Elliott
#51. 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
#52. Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.
Dan Harris
#53. My father always made an amazing meatloaf, and I've inherited his skill. Leftover meatloaf in a sandwich? Come on!
Elizabeth Banks
#54. The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
Uell Stanley Andersen
#55. My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.
Russell Wilson
#57. If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.
Walter Bonatti
#58. The great men of all areas of humanity's activities never tried to be a better version of someone else. They simply brought to the table a full life's cultivation of their particular skill sets, experiences, and passions, and we must do the same.
Chris Matakas
#59. For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#60. The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.
Daniel Kahneman
#61. You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.
Max Lucado
#62. Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Douglas Horton
#63. Being able to know when to make quick decisions is an important skill.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#64. Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesn't possess is worthless.
Bernard Cornwell
#66. Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
Alan Turing
#67. I start a boxing movie and that's kind of something I've been able to get to the gym for. It's great anytime you can parallel a skill that your character has. I just think it makes it even more rewarding.
Miles Teller
#68. When the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.
Barbara Kingsolver
#69. Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.
Joseph Pilates
#71. The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.
Lorrie Fair
#72. Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.
John Mayer
#73. The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
August Bournonville
#74. We attempt to worship God apart from the power of the Holy Spirit. We trust in our own wisdom, plans, creativity, and skill. We forget that worship of the triune God includes the Holy Spirit.
Bob Kauflin
#75. By middle school, students have an image of themselves as readers or nonreaders. Students who do not read see reading as a talent that they do not have rather than as an attainable skill.
Donalyn Miller
#76. Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.
Alexander Crum Brown
#77. Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
John Ortberg
#78. The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#79. The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#80. Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you ... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.
Sara Genn
#81. Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.
David A. Heenan
#82. Skill development, speed and scale are the 3 important aspects that are relevant to the present-day growth and development module.
Narendra Modi
#83. Then again, she had-through a bizarre combination of skill, dumb luck and incredible misfortune-managed to build up a file any Debunker would envy.
Stacia Kane
#84. Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.
Jamshyd Godrej
#85. 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.
Jodie Foster
#86. Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.
Charlotte Gray
#87. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Anonymous
#88. We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#89. 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
#90. Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.
Daniel Goleman
#91. Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.
Travis Bradberry
#92. 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
#93. The Greek philosophers have compiled many works with persuasiveness and much skill in words; but what fruit have they to show for this such as has the cross of Christ? Their wise thoughts were persuasive enough until they died;
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#94. I was bartending in Boston five, six nights a week, living in my grandmother's condo. By the way, I'm a really good bartender - that's the only skill I can confidently say I have.
Katie Nolan
#95. I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
Stendhal
#96. Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it ... there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone
Earl Nightingale
#97. A bullfighter must have courage, skill, and grace. And of these courage is the most important.
Maia Wojciechowska
#98. I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.
Robert A. Heinlein
#99. In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.
Wendell Berry
#100. The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner's imagination.
Keith Johnstone
