Skill Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Skill

Skill Quotes & Sayings

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When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill. — William J. Clinton

It's noble to be skilled, but ultimately people pay for solutions your skills can provide not the skills you possess — Bernard Kelvin Clive

The archer is the true weapon; the bow is just a long piece of wood. — Sebastien De Castell

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. — Ray Bradbury

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Skill makes love unending. — Ovid

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art. — Anthony Marais

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn

Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. — Aldo Leopold

Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read. — Benjamin Franklin

He smiled. The ability to drink and not grow drunk - an advantage of pewter that nobody had told him about. There had to be a way to use such a skill. — Brandon Sanderson

Where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it? — China Mieville

Overcoming skeptics is still a skill that innovators need. — Nancy Tennant Snyder

It appeared that she was attacking a new knitting hobby with more determination than skill. — Katie Ruggle

The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her. — Gloria Furman

As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more — Billy Donovan

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill. — Charlotte Riley

She laid land mines in my skill that detonated weeks later. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Willpower is a learnable skill, something that can be taught the same way kids learn to do math and say thank you. — Charles Duhigg

Process is not a substitute for skill. — Jim Highsmith

To run any system, you've got to grow your personnel and your players have to have a certain skill set. — Jim Cleamons

Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment. — John Mayer

All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics. — Tom McCarthy

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

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require. — Artur Davis

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression. — Ai Weiwei

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection. — Robert C. Solomon

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself. — Matthew Macfadyen

Setting the right priorities or having superior time management skill means knowing the difference between "must have," and "nice to have. — Pearl Zhu

I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill. — Matthew McConaughey

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice. — George Vecsey

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill. — Bob Dylan

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom). — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas. — Criss Jami

A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Mindsight is a teachable skill at the heart of being empathic and insightful, moral and compassionate. — Daniel J. Siegel

Humanity need not be taught in schools, it is a gift and skill one should master. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill. — Jim Highsmith

My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that. — Chuck Palahniuk

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will. — Samuel Tuke

Human Resources management is a skill ingrained with an art to execute. — Henrietta Newton Martin

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through. — Feist

Training is a universal right. It's not just targeted at those with the worst skill levels. — Jeff Denham

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill. — Nelson Mandela

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius. — Guy De Maupassant

Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual. — Ian Fleming

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out. — Chuck Jones

You need luck to keep going. It takes more than skill to stay alive. — Walter Farley

There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill. — Allison Mackie

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony. — George G. Williams

The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age. — Alice Hoffman

I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash. — Ryan Hall

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill. — Ovid

The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Develop the skill of writing to avoid errors but if you do make them, don't be demotivated — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill. — Ronald Ross

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens. — Andy Stanley

Seduction ... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity. — Dan Simmons

ABOYNE (vb.)
To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him. — Douglas Adams

Masochism is a valuable job skill. — Chuck Palahniuk

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen. — Robert K. Greenleaf

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

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill. — Fred Thompson

Well-directed thought is a learned skill. To manifest an intention requires laserlike focus, full sensory visualization, and a profound belief. — Dan Brown

Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Ronaldinho was a trickster, an artist with the ball. Leo represents the essence of the game: speed plus skill. — Luca Caioli

The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all. — Sun Tzu

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens. — Steve Goodier

Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee! — Herman Melville

Those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime. — Tony Robbins

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs. — Chuck Palahniuk

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom. — J. Paul Getty

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver

love is a skill to be learnt, rather than just an emotion to be felt. It — The School Of Life

I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children. — Carolyn Hax

If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall. — Chuck Black

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill and concentration. — David Mitchell

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song. — Ariel Pink

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos. — Dave Eggers

Never judge a student's skill on the bases of his academic success; you may never know that he could be tomorrow's Einstein. — Srinivas Shenoy

Living is a kind of skill. — Atul Gawande

Love is a skill you learn. — Chuck Palahniuk

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline. — Peter Drucker

To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory. — James Roby

You make your Own luck. — Neale Donald Walsch

Racers never lose their skill, they just lose the will to use it, and until they reach that point they keep getting faster. — Mat Oxley

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. — Adam Gopnik

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes. — Gene Black

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. — Baltasar Gracian

99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever. — William J. Bernstein

...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm. — Alain De Botton

Get a child interested in learning a skill while young and they will remember forever. — Sybrina Durant

Acquire a skill not by claiming the concept, but by letting the concept claim you — Aaron Ozee

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it. — Wallace Stegner

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose