Quotes about skill
skills numbers leader
Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence Tony Robbins
skills discipline listening
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
skills discipline listening
Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.
skills magic use
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
skills television littles
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.
skills space quality
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. Marissa Mayer
skills able would-be
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. Megan Fox
skills giving study
When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment. Max Lucado
skills voice people
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. Matt Lucas
skills competition warfare
Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit. Lou Brock
skills needs integrated
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. Lou Gerstner
skills ease sides
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. John Gay
skills names important
What was that, Kurokuma?' asked one of the escorts riding near him. The others chuckled at the name. 'Nothing important,' Horace said. Then he looked at them suspiciously. 'What's this Kurokuma business?' The Senshi looked at him with a completely staight face. 'It's a term of great respect,' he said. Several others within earshot nodded confirmation. They too managed to remain straight-faced. It was a skill the Nihon-Jan had perfected. 'Great respect,' one of them echoed. John Flanagan
skills america endurance
If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America. John F. Kennedy
skills world week
When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills. Jonathan Maberry
skills campaigning
I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills. Peter Mandelson
skills luck faces
We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless. Primo Levi
skills preparation bread
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation. Paracelsus
skills people suffering
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process? John Irving
skills roots people
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization. John Henrik Clarke
skills people long
The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning, John Doerr
skills impact want
You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact. John McKinley
skills use acquisition
The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to a common and shared life John Dewey
skills keys interaction
The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.
skills way suits
We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual. Lee R. Raymond
skills literature vigor
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
skills acting want
I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills. Julianne Hough
skills practice get-better
The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits. Joshua Foer
skills focus make-you-happy
If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy. Kate Reardon
skills enjoy nature-love
I love nature and enjoy learning new skills. Leona Lewis
skills humanity inheritance
The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity. Leland Stanford
skills actors producers
I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous. Laura Ziskin
skills breakfast spoil
It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it. John Kenneth Galbraith