Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Flanagan

What was that, Kurokuma?' asked one of the escorts riding near him. The others chuckled at the name. 'Nothing important,' Horace said. Then he looked at them suspiciously. 'What's this Kurokuma business?' The Senshi looked at him with a completely staight face. 'It's a term of great respect,' he said. Several others within earshot nodded confirmation. They too managed to remain straight-faced. It was a skill the Nihon-Jan had perfected. 'Great respect,' one of them echoed.

John F. Kennedy

If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America.

Jonathan Maberry

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 Evison

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Jodie Foster

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.

Jim Lehrer

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Jim Rohn

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.

Jim Rohn

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

Jim Rohn

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

Jim Rohn

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill.

Jim Rohn

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

John Irving

It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

John Henrik Clarke

It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.

John Doerr

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning,

John McKinley

You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact.

John Dewey

The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to a common and shared life

John Dewey

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

Joan Smalls

People hide behind the word aesthetic. They say, ‘Well, it’s just that designer’s aesthetic.’ But when you see 18 seasons in a row and not one single model outside a certain skin color…? There are people in the industry who are advocates, who support diversity. And there are people who do not. I don’t get it. Beauty is universal. These doors have to open,

Jimmy Fallon

During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'

Garry Trudeau

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

M. Night Shyamalan

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

Lou Holtz

So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?

Malcolm Gladwell

We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.

Malcolm Gladwell

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

Freida Pinto

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

Frank Langella

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill

Holly Black

Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be? Seriously, what else could go wrong?

Hermann Maier

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

Hermann Hesse

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills.

Hassanal Bolkiah

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

Hiroyuki Sanada

Action is just one of my skills.