Skill Quotes · Page 15

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

— Mitch Albom

I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my…

— Mary Steenburgen

Sometimes it's harder to untrain somebody with dance experience than it is to teach somebody with a new skill.

— Cheryl Burke

If you lack communicative skill your brilliant ideas & knowledge gets you nowhere.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

— Garry Trudeau

My level of skill is average. I'm not making some bomb Italian dish or anything, but I can make food that tastes…

— Alex Caruso

“There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.”

— Anonymous

I work a lot on skill demands and changes in labor markets having to do with technology and with trade as well.

— David Autor

Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of…

— Margaret Mead

Even in our understanding of surviving on the Great Plains, they would cover this enormous amount of ground. I imagine these people's…

— Steven Rinella

The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could.…

— Angus Deaton

I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from…

— Patty Judge

Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill…

— Freddy Rodriguez

“There is skill in all things, even in making porridge. Dry bread at home is better than curried prawns abroad. Eating and…

— Ruskin Bond

I thought poker might be a perfect environment to start to learn probabilistic decision-making, and to live what it means to have…

— Maria Konnikova

To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and…

— Robert Greene

There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch…

— Felicity Jones

Germany has great skill levels, great infrastructure, high-quality plant. If you go to the U.K., we're very creative, and we've got the…

— Jim Ratcliffe

Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and…

— John Dickerson

You go to the driving range, you acknowledge that certain people are naturally better at golf than others. Listening is the same…

— Mike Tomlin

Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since…

— Stephen Jay Gould

For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing…

— Russell Crowe

“Bill Door had carefully ensured a local reputation as the worst bowman in the entire history of toxophily; it had never occurred…

— Terry Pratchett

“…as she cycled home Shelley reflected that in all her years at Birnam Wood she had never quite mastered the skill of…

— Eleanor Catton

Swallow your pride and be completely objective about your own poker skill level. Only then can you implement an effective betting strategy.

— Daniel Negreanu

I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.

— Mindy Kaling

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

— Lewis Howes

“See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“they all know the skill of the skilful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what the want of skill…

— Lao Tzu

I never doubted in me. I always knew what I can do. I always had the same skill-set.

— Ivica Zubac

What Kirk wanted every evening was to go to bed with a beautiful woman. Our captain now is a man of infinitely…

— Gene Roddenberry

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill

— Frank Langella

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

— Bob Riley

It's a life lesson they need to have, a skill everybody needs - to cook.

— Guy Fieri

I believe in my skill 100 percent, that I can go out there and beat Demetrious Johnson and give him the best…

— Joseph Benavidez

I come from one of the great coaches - Matt Hume, Brad Kertson - and my skill set is well-rounded.

— Demetrious Johnson

“Some people have no generic or niche skills but still, they grow in their career, just because of their ‘Neech’ Skills.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

Felipe Anderson's got a good engine, pace, skill, passing ability and a decent shot on him.

— Giorgio Chiellini

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