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