Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

Mary Garden

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

Martha Beck

Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

Martha Beck

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

Patrick MacGill

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

Leonardo da Vinci

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

Nathan Myhrvold

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

Niccolo Machiavelli

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

Jesse Eisenberg

I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

Jeremy Renner

Yeah there's always something different. He's still limited to what he can do - ya know, no super powers, just a high skill set. But they have a cool thing - this time I learn very quickly... um, bow. 'Cause in the first Avengers he had that short bow that cracks open, and then I can crack and close with a staff. So now I'm a master with a staff apparently. I have to learn that today.

Harry Styles

I like things that involve skill and I love anything that's a bit of a challenge

King Krule

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

Milton Friedman

My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used.

Kathryn Schulz

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

Julian Assange

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

Kristen Stewart

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

Kool Keith

Supersonic bionic robot voodoo power Equator ex my chance to flex skills on Ampex

Kirby Dick

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

Marcus Terentius Varro

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

Marc Benioff

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.

Kevin Mitnick

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

Margaret Thatcher

Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

Margaret Beckett

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

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!"

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.