Quotes about skill
skills people meals
We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts. Michael Pollan
skills people leader
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. Shiv Khera
skills people persuasion
Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
skills born
Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how. Seth Godin
skills marketing capability
We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills. Mercer Reynolds
skills connections new-skills
Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.
skills perspective people
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. Norman Cousins
skills important constantly-learning
The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. John Naisbitt
skills important world
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.
skills tolerance lines
[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous. Nora Roberts
skills judgement ignorant
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 Nicolaus Copernicus
skills errors people
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. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
skills littles scientist
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom. Max Born
skills acting film
As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
skills challenges flow
Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them. Martin Seligman
skills optimism deals
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.
skills important development
To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills. Martin Rees
skills important obsolete
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
skills decision firsts
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.
skills discipline listening
Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.
skills discipline listening
Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.
skills magic use
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
skills television littles
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.
skills space quality
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. Marissa Mayer
skills able would-be
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. Megan Fox
skills giving study
When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment. Max Lucado
skills voice people
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. Matt Lucas
skills effort mind
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. Matthieu Ricard
skills satisfaction restaurants
Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. Mario Batali
skills spontaneity
Spontaneity comes after skill, not before. Mason Cooley
skills effort challenges
If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or taking on any challenge, unsuccessful efforts are an essential aspect of skill building. Michael Josephson
skills careers long
I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities. Martha Wainwright
skills comeback good-writers
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. Theodore Sturgeon