Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Maxwell

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

Garth Stein

This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly. Know who is driving next to you. Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

Gail Simmons

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Frederick Leboyer

Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin

Seth Godin

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

James R. Thompson

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

Mercer Reynolds

We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

Shay Mitchell

Sometimes when I travel from climate to climate, my skin can change very drastically because I go from hot to cold. I get dry like everybody else - from planes.

Nora Roberts

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

Eric Balfour

I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.

Emun Elliott

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

Paul Kelly

The first year was really by the skin of our teeth.

James Chiles

Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

I don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.

Henry Rollins

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

Norman Cousins

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.

John Naisbitt

The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

John Naisbitt

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.

Jon Foreman

Music is admitted under the skin without permission.

Jojo Moyes

He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.

Louis Nizer

Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

Jim Rogers

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.

Luther Burbank

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.

Max Lucado

When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

Matt Lucas

People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

Matthieu Ricard

The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

Meg Greenfield

Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.

Max Born

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

Matthew Barney

I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.