Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Ziskin

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

Linda Ronstadt

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

Gayle Forman

I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.

M. Night Shyamalan

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

Lou Holtz

So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?

Malcolm Gladwell

We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.

Malcolm Gladwell

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

Freida Pinto

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

Frank Langella

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill

Gordon Ramsay

Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Jodie Foster

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

Jim Lehrer

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Jim Rohn

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.

Jim Rohn

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

Jim Rohn

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

Jim Rohn

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill.

Jim Rohn

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

Jim Thorpe

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

Lloyd Alexander

...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

T. Harv Eker

You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.

T. Harv Eker

If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

T. Harv Eker

You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your money “blueprint” isn't set for success, you're financially doomed.

T. Harv Eker

Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything

T. Harv Eker

Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.

Ray LaMontagne

I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.

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.

Rick Riordan

If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.

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.