Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Garber

I have no skills. The only thing I could possibly do is teach.

Russell Wilson

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Sam Mendes

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Roy H. Williams

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

Ron Silver

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Suresh Raina

At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

Sugata Mitra

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

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.

Tony Hawk

Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.

Tony Gilroy

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

Steve Wozniak

If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.

Stephen Covey

Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

Stephen Covey

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

Stephen Covey

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

Usain Bolt

Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work

Susanna Kaysen

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

Suzanne Collins

We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemakers to amaze them with our skills, but I don't know what any of us might have to show them. There's a lot of kidding about it at lunch. What we might do. Sing, dance, strip, tell jokes. Mags, who i can understand a little better now, decides she's just going to take a nap.

Stephen King

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

Tony Judt

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

Steve McFadden

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

Stephen Hawking

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

Shailene Woodley

I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

Rajeev Shukla

Sehwag shall be remembered for his explosive and natural cricketing skills. Wish him all success on his birthday.

Rahul Dravid

Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

Temple Grandin

When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

Thomas Frank

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

Thomas Boswell

Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.

Vince Cable

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

Richard Davidson

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

Kanye West

There's nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn't able to get good at. That's my skill. I'm not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That's what I do. That's what I'm here for.

Warren G. Bennis

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

Saint Basil

We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.