Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

Jack Welch

Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

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.

Louis Nizer

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.

Jim Rogers

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.

Luther Burbank

Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.

Robert Kiyosaki

One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found.

Ellen Terry

There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.

Rick Santorum

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

Tana French

Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.

Tamora Pierce

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!

Ron Suskind

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

Ron Dennis

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.

Stephen King

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

Thomas Boswell

Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.

William J. Clinton

When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.

Sarah Silverman

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

Warren G. Bennis

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

Saint Basil

We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Robert Morse

My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.

Richard Whately

Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.

Richelle Mead

I, had an excellent instructor. One that you currently have locked up. If you want to talk about skills going to waste, then go look in your own jail.

Ryan Hall

I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.

Thomas Piketty

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

Robert Heller

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Robert Greene

When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.

Robert Greene

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

Richard Russo

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

Sandra Brown

I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)

It requires less skill to love than to be loved.