Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patch Adams

I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.

Parminder Nagra

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.

Lester Holt

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.

Muhammad Ali

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

Maria Bartiromo

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

Martin Lewis

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.

Nathan Myhrvold

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

Niccolo Machiavelli

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

Joey Ramone

Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

Kristen Stewart

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

Kool Keith

Supersonic bionic robot voodoo power Equator ex my chance to flex skills on Ampex

Kirby Dick

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

Marcus Terentius Varro

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

Marc Benioff

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.

Kevin Mitnick

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.

Margaret Thatcher

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 Beckett

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

Larry Page

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.

Maeve Binchy

Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

Liz Phair

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

Michael Jordan

I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.

Michael Jordan

My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.

Martin Gardner

Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems.

Mark Millar

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

Noam Chomsky

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Matt Bomer

The best experience for me at CMU was being on stage so much, getting that comfort ability and learning that technique you can use with any type of work because you’re comfortable with it and know your skill as an actor.

Marvin Bower

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

Ovid

Skill makes love unending.

Ovid

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

Paul Oakenfold

Let their music skill speak for [itself]. If they are producing good tracks and are resonating with their fans, or even gaining new fans, then that's great.

Mary Garden

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

Martha Beck

Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

Martha Beck

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.