Quotes about skills
skills honey taste
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive. Charles Caleb Colton
skills generations novelists
We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on. Charles Stross
skills perception taoism
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. Alan Watts
skills age lucky
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both. Alan Blinder
skills cards world
I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon. Dave Franco
skills judging-yourself luck
Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself. Carl Icahn
skills class looks
You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out. Billy Joe Saunders
skills mind soil
In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . . Edward Gibbon
skills energy kind
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. David Hockney
skills ideas judgement
Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us. Audrey Meadows
skills differences survival
Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill. Audre Lorde
skills circles differences
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
skills doubt senses
There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt Arne Jacobsen
skills way collaboration
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board. Antony Starr
skills car effort
The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well. Antony Sher
skills imagination people
Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier. Denis Waitley
skills iraq america
Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons inspection. However, if members could be accompanied by weapons inspection experts, that could be a step in the right direction. Dennis Kucinich
skills goal long
The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them. Denise Morrison
skills lust mind
Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake' d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind. Edward Dyer
skills littles fantastic
Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern. Edward Klein
skills ideas imagination
Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas. Charlotte Bunch
skills example investing
Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having. Charlie Munger
skills bird strenght
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all Bill Walton
skills use homework
I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation. Bill Watterson
skills decision fool
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master. Benjamin Franklin
skills genius fine
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. Arthur Conan Doyle
skills climbing drunk
If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn't matter how great you were, it'll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you. Banksy
skills challenges balance
When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness. Ariel Gore
skills ambitious movement
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. Diane Cilento
skills numbers broken
With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs. Alexis de Tocqueville
skills issues judgement
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement Brian Eno
skills style moments
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. Boris Johnson
skills tasks advancement
Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work. Brian Tracy