Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.

Terry Pratchett

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

Temple Grandin

When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

Shari Arison

Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.

Marcus Aurelius

Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.

Robert McCracken

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

Russell Wilson

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Sam Mendes

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Roy H. Williams

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

Ron Silver

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Suresh Raina

At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

Sugata Mitra

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Sheryl Sandberg

Build your skills not your resume.

Sheila Ballantyne

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

Sheila Ballantyne

everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.

Tavis Smiley

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Talib Kweli

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

Tony Robbins

Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.

Tony Robbins

If there is any one skill that every professional must learn, it is how to brand himself or herself in the marketplace. A brand provides certainty to customers and lets them know that what they`re getting is the best. People don`t like to make decisions. Once we decide, for example, the kind of toothpaste we prefer, rarely do we change. We have to make so many decisions every day in our lives that most of us are overwhelmed.

Tony Robbins

Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence

Tony Robbins

Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.

Tony Robbins

One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly

Simone Elkeles

You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

Tony Judt

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

Steve McFadden

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

Shailene Woodley

I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

Richard Branson

Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.

Steven Soderbergh

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

Steven Spielberg

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

Robert Bridges

O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.

Vince Cable

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

Victor Garber

I have no skills. The only thing I could possibly do is teach.