Skill Quotes · Page 18

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

In Brazil, we believe a lot in skill. We think it will decide matches and tournaments. Sometimes we forget the tactical side.

— Lucas Moura

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

— Richard Davidson

The skill of telemarketing does not necessarily translate into governing.

— Chris Murphy

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

— John Ruskin

I think I can fit in multiple styles and adjust to multiple styles just because of my skill set.

— Julius Randle

It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

— Ai Weiwei

I love it how you break it down and how ya take ya ass up. Thats the skill you own and thats…

— Donatt

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of…

— Orville Wright

Action films don't speak to me, because that's not my skill set. I also have a lot of stipulations about stories I…

— Debra Granik

Whoever is playing with me, they participate in the arrangement; I learned from Craig Street to really pool the stories and the…

— Lizz Wright

Although 'L.A. Confidential' is a long movie, there's never a moment when you think, 'I'm loving this... but when's dinner?' Each time…

— Julian Fellowes

I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on,…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and…

— David Nevins

Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true…

— Eric S. Raymond

I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love…

— Kris Holden-Ried

“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only…

— Joseph Bruchac

“A general is a specialist insofar as he has master his craft. Beyond that and outside the arbitrary pro and con, he…

— Ernst Jünger

When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree…

— Anonymous

The problem that people don't understand is that active managers, almost by definition, have to be poorly diversified. Otherwise, they're not really…

— Eugene Fama

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part…

— E. F. Schumacher

I wanted to play characters that were going to make me better and really challenge me to raise my skill level up…

— Brian Michael Smith

The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.

— Joshua Foer

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

— Charles Stross

“Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I think I definitely have the mentality and skill set to be a top-five receiver, that's no doubt.

— Amari Cooper

Even though people do not traditionally think of being empathetic as a business skill, it can create enormous value.

— Daniel Lubetzky

It is difficult to master the skill of scoring runs from a 90mph delivery that is dug into your armpit or is…

— Jonathan Agnew

My power is a characteristic of my skill, no different than someone who's smaller and has speed as their skill.

— Bob Sapp

“I am an expert swordsman. And I am skilled in the business of death. I take no pleasure in my skill. Simply,…

— Oliver Bowden

I see a skill developing of writing about not just feelings that I'm feeling, but things that I deeply care about as…

— Ezra Furman

I love teaching people how to handle their money and I've built a brand on that skill.

— Michelle Singletary

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

— Steven Spielberg

“There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

— Robert Half

Getting recognized for my skill is very important to me. 'Raman Raghav 2.0' gave me that.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

People doubted me, said I lacked skill. I'm just trying to stay consistent, use my minutes wisely, and do what I can…

— Anthony Bennett

Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.

— Michael Moschen

Sometimes you get players who are faster than you or who can trick you with some skill. Sometimes you make the foul.

— Fernandinho

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

— Diane Cilento