Skills Quotes · Page 7

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.

— Peter Drucker

Habits grow from obtaining knowledge, attitude and skills.

— Bill Capodagli

I feel dominant - I feel the triangle offense utilizes all my skills.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.

— Peter Senge

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

— Franz Grillparzer

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

— Matthew Macfadyen

“Your calling is in what you often think about”

— Sunday Adelaja

Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

— Nancy Etcoff

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

— Guy Kawasaki

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

— Mireille Guiliano

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

— Julia Gillard

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.

— Candace Bushnell

“There is no set time for a skill to be attained. Each skill is required uniquely at a certain time and from…

— Mitta Xinindlu

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

— Og Mandino

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

— Sugata Mitra

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I…

— Jonny Lang

There are things that I won't joke about, but it's not because I don't think they're funny or they can't be made…

— Brad Williams

As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted…

— Alberto Manguel

Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game.…

— Olivia Wilde

I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my…

— Wynn Bullock

I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training…

— Jade Hassoune

I have no skills! I can't speak French, I can't ski, I can't play the guitar... I can barely log on to…

— Elin Hilderbrand

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless.…

— Virginia Postrel

I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying…

— N.K. Jemisin

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of…

— Pete Carroll

Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time,…

— Martha Beck

We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding…

— Yukio Mishima

[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares…

— Bill Gates

As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon…

— Miyamoto Musashi

“[... Dance] involves every possible feeling (as potential), because it is of the body, which is lived (inescapably) as a body of…

— Sondra Horton Fraleigh

If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was…

— Gilbert Arenas

Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

— Carly Fiorina

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

— DeRay Mckesson

My style and skills are pretty good. I weave, box, punch, counter-punch.

— Shane Mosley

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

— Edwin Schlossberg

“It is impossible to pause, stop or delay time”

— Sunday Adelaja

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you truly believe in yourself and your skills, most times, it's enough.

— Daniel Cormier