Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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!"

Mitch Albom

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

These skills can be used anywhere. Shopping, getting gas, out to dinner.

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.

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.

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.

Iris Chang

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

Immanuel Kant

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

Ian Mcewan

But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill....

Florence Welch

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

Henry Mintzberg

Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills.

Henry Mintzberg

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

Jackson Browne

How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?

Gary Vaynerchuk

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

Chris Shiflett

Working hard is a skill you have to nurture!

Frank Borman

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

Chris LeDoux

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Chris Hughes

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

George Soros

If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.

Franz Grillparzer

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

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.

Garth Stein

This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly. Know who is driving next to you. Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

Gail Simmons

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.