Quotes about skill
skills president important
During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.' Jimmy Fallon
skills underwear happens
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. Garry Trudeau
skills needs
We need foreign skills to stay competitive. Hassanal Bolkiah
skills action just-one
Action is just one of my skills. Hiroyuki Sanada
skills needs force
Force has no place where there is need of skill Herodotus
skills trying blame
I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear. Henry Rollins
skills narrative
History is a set of skills rather than a narrative. Hilary Mantel
skills excellence entertainment
the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. Henry Fielding
skills wish looks
I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable. Steven Soderbergh
skills outsiders made
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. Steven Spielberg
skills soul mind
O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss. Robert Bridges
skills satisfaction restaurants
Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. Mario Batali
skills brain cows
Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems. Martin Gardner
skills decision decision-making
Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait. Mark Millar
skills use oratory
I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had. Noam Chomsky
skills green karate
My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt. Molly Quinn
skills average challenges
If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
skills use persons
A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
skills like-being-alone people
Socializing is more positive than being alone, that’s why meetings are so popular. People don’t like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn...
skills effort demand
Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.
skills capacity
One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.
skills important constantly-learning
The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. John Naisbitt
skills important world
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
skills satisfaction burden
Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter. John Piper
skills important obsolete
The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time. Peter Drucker
skills decision firsts
Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.
skills humanity littles
The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity. Edward Dmytryk
skills study new-skills
Continue to study and learn new skills. Edie McClurg
skills yesterday showing-up
Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be? Seriously, what else could go wrong? Holly Black
skills water siddhartha
I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills. Hermann Hesse
skills texas practice
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. James R. Thompson
skills differences people
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. Louis Nizer
skills giving perfect
The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin. Jim Rogers