Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Seligman

Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.

Martin Seligman

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

Martin Rees

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

Laura Linney

I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

Lisa Randall

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

Lisa Unger

I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.

Lisa Ling

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

Johnny Depp

I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.

John Rhys-Davies

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

James Lee Burke

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

James Hunter

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

James Hunter

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

John Piper

Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

Peter Drucker

The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.

Peter Drucker

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

Peter Drucker

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

Peter Drucker

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.

Penn Jillette

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

Penn Jillette

I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.

Marissa Mayer

Theres no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, theres no such thing, really, as professional photographers when theres everything thats professional photographers. Certainly theres varying levels of skills but we didnt want to have a Flickr Pro anymore. We wanted everyone to have professional quality photo space and sharing.

Megan Fox

I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do directing. If I were able to, I'd like to get into that.

Nicolaus Copernicus

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement. De Revolutionibus Coelestibus

Nas

Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.

Miranda Hart

I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully.

Miranda Kerr

What I find really works for me is dry body brushing; it helps improve the circulation and exfoliates your skin.

Miley Cyrus

Everyone should try no gluten for a week! The change in your skin, physical and mental health is amazing. You won't go back!

Jim Thorpe

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

Lloyd Alexander

...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

Lou Brock

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Lou Gerstner

We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

John Gay

I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.