Quotes about skills
skills people computer
It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills. Kevin Mitnick
skills succeed tasks
Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism? Margaret Thatcher
skills social-worker reason
One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker. Margaret Beckett
skills scientist should
You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills Leonardo da Vinci
skills moral possession
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model... Paul Gauguin
skills excellent
I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there. Patrick Rothfuss
skills environment areas
I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area. Patch Adams
skills acting bonus
That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn. Parminder Nagra
skills people important
One of the most important skills at [reporting] is not so much what comes out of your mouth but what you hear. To listen. When you interview people, it's very important to understand the nuances of what they're saying and to understand when they have actually made news-when they've told you something that they haven't told anybody else. Lester Holt
skills car discipline
If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995. Larry Page
skills members should
Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained? Ina May Gaskin
skills done realizing
As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills. Idina Menzel
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 doubt instinct
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct Kathryn Schulz
skills language journalism
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. Julian Assange
skills ideas important
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. Ravi Zacharias
skills hijab affront
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. Randa Abdel-Fattah
skills intelligence mind
The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it. Rajneesh
skills fantasy relevant
I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom. Raf Simons
skills cuffs someday
Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that. Michael Pena
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