Quotes about skills
skills people creative
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. Lisa Randall
skills safety levels
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. John Rhys-Davies
skills people influence
Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence. James Hunter
skills goal people
Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.
skills texas practice
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. James R. Thompson
skills differences people
Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference. Louis Nizer
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 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 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 roots people
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization. John Henrik Clarke
skills people long
The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning, John Doerr
skills impact want
You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact. John McKinley
skills use acquisition
The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to a common and shared life John Dewey
skills keys interaction
The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.
skills president important
During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.' Jimmy Fallon
skills underwear happens
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. Garry Trudeau
skills trying endurance
I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance. Jim Thorpe
skills mystery young
...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill. Lloyd Alexander
skills self volunteer
Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization. Madeleine M. Kunin
skills competition warfare
Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit. Lou Brock
skills needs integrated
We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness. Lou Gerstner
skills ease sides
I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense. John Gay