Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide,

Edward Abbey

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

Aubrey Plaza

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

Atul Gawande

You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

Atul Gawande

I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.

Ben Kingsley

There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.

Ed Parker

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

Earl Nightingale

Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone

Eliot Spitzer

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

She has a lot of new skills that she's working on. Hopefully, she'll have them down for conference.

Denene Millner

I knew that Steve Harvey had a good, solid message to share, and I wanted to use my knowledge and skills as a relationship author to help him bring his message to those who were willing to receive it.

Brian Eno

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Brandon Boyd

I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.

Boris Johnson

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

David Nicholls

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

We need a big shake-up in the way this is done because the skies are getting more crowded.

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

Shannon Bahrke

I'm going to ski how I want to ski.

It was his start in the ski business.

Stuart Law

I want to play for as long as my skill allows me to play at the top level.

Cynthia Voigt

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

Daphne Guinness

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

Dar Williams

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

Clifford Stoll

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

Colin Mochrie

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.

David Copperfield

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

David Harvey

Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital .

Confucius

The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.

Daley Thompson

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won't have to use anything else.

David Byrne

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.