Skill Quotes
1130 quotes by 915 authors
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I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside your…
— Joe Bradley
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I learned to observe other people - that's sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human…
— Natalie Portman
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I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together.…
— Charlie Day
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I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into…
— Frank Gehry
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If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is…
— William Eckhardt
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Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new…
— Irina Bokova
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Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay…
— Donald Laird
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Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another,…
— Criss Jami
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One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now…
— Criss Jami
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Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
— Criss Jami
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I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming…
— Stephen Hawking
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the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
— Henry Fielding
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Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I liked playing with David Eckstein (former Angels shortstop). I'm not talking about players with top skills, I'm sure there were players with way more…
— Bengie Molina
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Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always…
— Terry Crews
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Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film…
— Jodie Foster
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill…
— Anatole France
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