Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nora Roberts

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

Nicolaus Copernicus

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement. De Revolutionibus Coelestibus

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.

Ravi Zacharias

Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

Rajneesh

The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it.

Raf Simons

I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom.

Michael Pena

Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.

Michael Pollan

We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.

Shiv Khera

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Shiv Khera

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Seth Godin

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

Maeve Binchy

Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

Liz Phair

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

Michael Jordan

I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.

Michael Jordan

My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.

Markus Zusak

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

Mark Twain

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise...

Mason Cooley

Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.

Michael Josephson

If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or taking on any challenge, unsuccessful efforts are an essential aspect of skill building.

Martha Wainwright

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

Norman Cousins

What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

Theodore Sturgeon

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

Michael Palin

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

Paul Gauguin

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model...

Patrick Rothfuss

I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there.

Patch Adams

I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.

Parminder Nagra

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

Lester Holt

One of the most important skills at [reporting] is not so much what comes out of your mouth but what you hear. To listen. When you interview people, it's very important to understand the nuances of what they're saying and to understand when they have actually made news-when they've told you something that they haven't told anybody else.

Larry Page

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

Mercer Reynolds

We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.

Joey Ramone

Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

Ovid

Skill makes love unending.