Skills Quotes · Page 78

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

— Thomas Noon Talfourd

Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills,…

— William J. Clinton

I'm just broadening my craft and stretching my skills a little bit in different directions.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than…

— Etgar Keret

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

— Ron Suskind

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

— Lou Brock

I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to…

— Sonny Rollins

I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed programs. For me, the…

— Jeremy Abbott

“But perhaps that made me want it even more, to prove that passion was not just inherently gifted as some people believed,…

— Rebecca Ross

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I am concentrating on my acting skills.

— Nithiin

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are…

— Dale Dauten

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

— Michael Merzenich

I want to fight the best and show my skills, but I also want to be valued.

— Marlon Moraes

“If you want to be in business, your friends need to be in business too.”

— Ehab Atalla

It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The…

— Tulku Thondup

We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemakers to amaze them with our skills, but I don't know what any of us…

— Suzanne Collins

Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

— Richard Branson

With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious…

— Rossiter Johnson

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the…

— Ram Dass

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

— Ry Cooder

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Carolyn Hax

We have to teach girls communication skills.

— Rachel Simmons

IPL is something... it's where we polish our skills and be in form, but ODI and T20I are totally different.

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she…

— Virginia Woolf

In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.

— David Blunkett

Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill,…

— William Boyd

...but Dimitri...well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and…

— Richelle Mead

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

— Matthew McConaughey

An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote. A techie without actors is a person…

— Mark Leslie

Luck is when skill meets opportunity.

— Vinnie Paz

What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it…

— Bryan Adams

“You must invest quality time in your land to become great”

— Sunday Adelaja

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

— Jack Ramsay

Life is a blast when you know what you're doin', Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined. Life…

— Del tha Funkee Homosapien

Those negatively affected by globalization, those who are losing their jobs, and losing their skills, people out of training, must be looked…

— Christine Lagarde

Every track has its challenges, but Suzuka is a continuous test of a drivers skills, and I think thats what makes it…

— Romain Grosjean