Quotes about skill
skills waiting lines
She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent. Gregory Maguire
skills people way
Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills. J. Maarten Troost
skills people classroom
Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom. J. Paul Getty
skills creative world
We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill. H. G. Wells
skills trying painting
I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me. Georgia O'Keeffe
skills knowing
There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
skills hiding ability
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
skills tricks proof
Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.
skills judging trying
But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill.... Ian Mcewan
skills organization people
You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own. Howard Schultz
skills laughing survival
I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me some attention and a laugh without really helping the scene. Harold Ramis
skills giving trying
First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill. James Cromwell
skills people facts
Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. Jamais Cascio
skills historical research
I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills. Iris Chang
skills soul understanding
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs. Immanuel Kant
skills guy wish
I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that. Jonny Lang
skills rich easy
It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill. Kevin Bacon
skills oil necks
Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill. Kelley Armstrong
skills acting noble
It's true that the skills required to be a conman are the same as those required for being an actor. Though those skills are in the service of something a bit more noble with acting, I hope. John C. Reilly
skills challenges trying
I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.
skills levels determine
Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you. John C. Maxwell
skills giving dignity
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. Ellen Key
skills puppets clock
A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still Emily Dickinson
skills circles differences
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is. Ellen Terry
skills yesterday showing-up
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? Holly Black
skills water siddhartha
I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills. Hermann Hesse
skills needs
We need foreign skills to stay competitive. Hassanal Bolkiah
skills action just-one
Action is just one of my skills. Hiroyuki Sanada
skills needs force
Force has no place where there is need of skill Herodotus
skills trying blame
I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear. Henry Rollins
skills narrative
History is a set of skills rather than a narrative. Hilary Mantel
skills excellence entertainment
the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. Henry Fielding
skills dimensions should
New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand. Helen Clark