Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Sutter

I think what everyone underestimated about us was our skill level.

Richard Davidson

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

William S. Burroughs

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.

William J. Clinton

When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Robert McCracken

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

I don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.

Henry Rollins

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

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.

James R. Thompson

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

Louis Nizer

Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

Jim Rogers

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.

Luther Burbank

Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.

Eric Balfour

I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.

Orhan Pamuk

Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

Olympia Dukakis

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

Ellen Key

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Emily Dickinson

A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still

Mark Cuban

Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right.

We addressed a need we had for speed and skill in getting Patrick Sharp.

Stuart Law

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

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.

Julia Gillard

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

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.