Quotes about skill

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

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

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

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

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

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation to use it as best as you can. Don’t you agree?

The world won't be loyal and burden itself to those who are having one skill and talent any longer. Make yourself useful and indispensable...

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

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

No matter how talented or skilled you are, you will never reach your full potential without expert guidance.

Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him

There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. In the end such a man becomes impossible to get hold of, since he is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes, a decked-out ghost that cannot inspire even fear and certainly not pity.

The genius. This is a skill to interact with outside environment, or source.

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

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself.

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...

Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. It was a peculiar life skill and one I had gotten damn good at.

He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application

Listening is a tough skill, but one who practice it becomes The Successful Leader!!!

The knowledge of the worker is often called ‘skill’, for it requires manual dexterity and training. The knowledge of the manager is ‘academic’ as it can be taught in colleges and universities. However, the knowledge of the leader is ‘creative’ which can generally not be taught, and must come from within.

He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend together; but those who have no such skill act as judges of the contest.

Its not the type of pencil but the artist's skill that matters.

Commoditization is the enemy of meaning. In ages dominated by the forces of commoditization, individuals pay the price with devalued lives. by contrast, unique skills requiring mastery and expertise, like the skills of a brain surgeon, are safe from the threat of commoditization.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.

Making a dream come true is like taking control of an airplane high up in the stratosphere and landing it safely on the ground – a measure of forethought, skill and courage is definitely required.

Don’t let the fact you haven’t done something before convince you that you can’t do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanced and truly compassionate human being?

Leadership is a skill learned through many venues.

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Innovation is more attitude than skill.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

The ability to make wise choices is the most valuable skill a person can develop.

Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character.

The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.

Power of productivity is not in working but relaxing

People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they aren’t human.

Consider for a moment that when you see someone as being ‘gifted’, it is out of a belief that whatever it is that they do, would be impossible for you to do. You should also consider that maybe their ‘gift’, is nothing more than an undeveloped skill in you.

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

Develop your skill around your calling