Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Rees

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

Laura Linney

I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

Lisa Randall

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 Unger

I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.

Lisa Ling

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

Johnny Depp

I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.

John Rhys-Davies

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.

James Lee Burke

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

James Hunter

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

James Hunter

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

Sheryl Sandberg

Build your skills not your resume.

Sheila Ballantyne

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

Sheila Ballantyne

everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.

Natalie Imbruglia

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

Natalie Portman

I learned to observe other people - that's sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill.

Tavis Smiley

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Tamar Braxton

I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.

Talib Kweli

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

Tony Robbins

Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.

Tony Robbins

If there is any one skill that every professional must learn, it is how to brand himself or herself in the marketplace. A brand provides certainty to customers and lets them know that what they`re getting is the best. People don`t like to make decisions. Once we decide, for example, the kind of toothpaste we prefer, rarely do we change. We have to make so many decisions every day in our lives that most of us are overwhelmed.

Tony Robbins

Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence

Peter Drucker

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

Peter Drucker

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.

Penn Jillette

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

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.

Marissa Mayer

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.

Megan Fox

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.

Max Lucado

When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

Matt Lucas

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.

Nate Burleson

It's probably like a fade-hawk. It's kind of a mohawk, it's skin-tight on the sides. But I couldn't go straight Mr. T though. I had to blend it a little bit in case I wear a suit. I would say it's more blended.

Lou Brock

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Lou Gerstner

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.

John Gay

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.