Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Lindsay

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

Jeff Bezos

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

George Will

Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'€™s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He is, however - let us say the worst - not cuddly. National Review has said he has 'an owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.' Harsh. But true.

Eminem

My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.

Guy Kawasaki

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

Harry Connick, Jr.

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.

Gregory Bateson

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.

Jack Kornfield

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Jack Canfield

It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it.

J. J. Abrams

I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.

Ioan Gruffudd

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.

Jack Kemp

We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

Most companies' tendency is to overestimate the skills they need.

When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.

Jay Bilas

Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength or athleticism. Toughness is A SKILL that can be developed & improved.

Candace Bushnell

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.

James Hetfield

When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"

Chris Shiflett

Working hard is a skill you have to nurture!

Havelock Ellis

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Gordon Brown

We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.

Herbert Spencer

The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.

Henry David Thoreau

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

Jessica Livingston

My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was that, when the time came and I had to get one done, I would design my own, fresh, without knowing how other people do it. That was another thing that made me very good. All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I'd never once done that thing in my life.

Gillian Jacobs

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

Harold Ramis

I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me some attention and a laugh without really helping the scene.

James Cromwell

First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.

Jamais Cascio

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

Gloria Estefan

I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!

Georgia O'Keeffe

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

Jesse Eisenberg

I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

Jeremy Renner

Yeah there's always something different. He's still limited to what he can do - ya know, no super powers, just a high skill set. But they have a cool thing - this time I learn very quickly... um, bow. 'Cause in the first Avengers he had that short bow that cracks open, and then I can crack and close with a staff. So now I'm a master with a staff apparently. I have to learn that today.

Harry Styles

I like things that involve skill and I love anything that's a bit of a challenge

Howard Schultz

You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.