Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Wilson

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

Jack Kornfield

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Jack Canfield

It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it.

J. J. Abrams

I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.

Ioan Gruffudd

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.

Jack Kemp

We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

Guy Kawasaki

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

Harry Connick, Jr.

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.

Gregory Bateson

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.

John Naisbitt

The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

John Naisbitt

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.

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.

Seth Godin

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

Mercer Reynolds

We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

Michael Palin

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

Ravi Zacharias

Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

Eric Balfour

I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

I don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.

Henry Rollins

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

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.

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 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.

James R. Thompson

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.