Quotes about skills
Ashwin Sanghi -
I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.
Rahul Dravid -
Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
Jason L. Ma - and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers
Passionately develop a positive and pragmatic psychology a fine skill set strategic thinking and execution effectiveness.
Gordon Brown -
We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.
Beth Ramsay - #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
Beware of relying solely on a resume to hire skills can be taught. What cannot be taught is a great “can do” attitude.
Lev S. Vygotsky -
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.
Matshona Dhliwayo -
The sky won’t shed tears if stars refuse to shine it will wait for the sun.
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Switch on your stamina your passion leads you to your winning styles. Build a good passion!
Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
They say our suffering is an inevitable part of the human condition just accept it. But the greatest human skill is that of a choice maker.
William A. Adams - Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.
Plato - The Republic
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
Suzy Kassem -
Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.
Luke Green -
Follow the rules until you make them.
Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays
All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.
Jerry Stahl -
Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills you develop will give you greater compassion, insight and range with the people you create on the page – or run into off of it.
Emi Iyalla -
If careful attention is paid to the reality, we will see clearly, the real shortage is of the right skills, rather than of jobs. If the right skills are developed, the right start-ups and other enterprises will emerge and provide the jobs needed. It’s always the horse before the cart, not the other way round. At a personal level, it will require the realisation of the need for the acquisition of required skills, the discipline to pursue it and the commitment to push through. These will require a
Lailah Gifty Akita -
We are capable of learning any art.
J. Maarten Troost - The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.
Abhishek Ratna - No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
Move out of your comfort zone, develop those necessary skills and go all out for that much needed advancement!
Ana Claudia Antunes - A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream
Achievement is no hocus-pocus. It's focus, focus!
Rafaa Khiari -
If your Ipad can do it better than you, then it is not a skill.
Syed Sharukh -
Nothing Can Beat Hard Work, But Hard Work Itself
Jason T. Rogers -
Success largely depends on the relationships you build along the journey.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Each one of us is endowed with specific sacred-skill.
Sesan Kareem -
Maybe you have been wondering about how to win the battle of life. Dress in the armour of war; be well grounded in the requisite knowledge to win your battle. Refine your skills, talents and tactics and forge ahead with determination. Prepare in advance and enter the war with the right strategy. Work with your warriors as a team. Avoid unnecessary mistakes and learn from your errors. Use the right weapons in your arsenal at the right time. Attack your struggles and protect your dreams. Know that
Sesan Kareem -
The personal development triangle includes, "knowledge" "Skills" and "Attitude." Knowledge is the foundation of all successes. the right skills will take us to great heights of accomplishment within a short period of time. But ultimately, the right attitude of faith, hope, commitment, patience, giving and determination will make anyone a super achiever.
Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:"1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil.4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble.5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their co
Iain Pears - The Dream of Scipio
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.
Shiv Khera - You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures.
Christine de Pizan - The Treasure of the City of Ladies
[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such women in power. The knowledge of a baroness must be so comprehensive that she can understand everything. Of her a philosopher might have said: "No one is wise who does not know some part of everything." Moreover, she must have the courage of a man. This means that she should not be brought up overmuch among women nor should she be indulged in extensive and feminine p
Sunday Adelaja -
Develop your skill around your calling
Sunday Adelaja -
Product is an output of efforts, skills and time
Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.
Sunday Adelaja -
Don’t limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise
Sunday Adelaja -
Your calling should be a pointer for your skill development
Sunday Adelaja -
People with a distinctly displayed fear of failure are prone to do their work well and with good coordination only in a case when their task require simple skills
Samuel Johnson - A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Zoltan Andrejkovics - The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team
Humility is not an attribute but a key to development.
John Green - The Fault in Our Stars
Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
Prince Akwarandu -
Recognizing your own progress is a huge part of feeling motivated to do more. Your brain is a great tool for your success. It is hard at work and automating the new things you are doing even when you are taking a break.
Nigel Cumberland - 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living
Do you enjoy your work? Are you happy to get out of bed each morning and dress for the office? If you answered ‘no’ to either of these questions, you are not alone. In a 2014 Conference Board survey, 52 per cent of Americans claimed to be unhappy at work and in a recent CIPD study 23 per cent of Britons claimed to be looking for a new job. In the same survey only about one-third claim to feel engaged with their work. You can see the effects of this in absence, stress and depression. In fact, you
Robin Hoyle - Complete Training: From Recruitment to Retirement
The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.
Robin Hoyle - Complete Training: From Recruitment to Retirement
If you don’t use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in front of you.
Robin Hoyle - Complete Training: From Recruitment to Retirement
There’s a fine line between child-like – learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff – and being child-ish.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
What you don't know can make you fail! Perhaps the only reason why you are where you are is that, you've not known what you have to know... Go, learn and take the lead!
Irving Kirsch - The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely to be different than those of people who have been treated with medication. Psychotherapy is a learning experience. Improvement is not produced by an external substance, but by changes within the person. It is like learning to read, write or ride a bicycle. Once you have learned, the skills stays with you. People no not become illiterate after they graduate from school, and if they get rusty at ri
Thomas Wentworth Higginson -
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.
Shannon L. Alder -
Anyone can become your best friend when you spend time together and share your feelings about life. However, not every best friend can free you from yourself. This is when you reconsider the word "best" and decide to expand your circle to include others.
Sara Sheridan -
Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.
Rafaa Khiari -
Anything you can do, but the computer can do it better than you. That's not a skill!
Acharya Mahapragya -
It is very difficult to understand man. It is also very difficult to understand what a man does. If he is able to give an explanation, it may be easier. Even then everything can not be understood. Words have their limitation and comprehension, its limits. So if we are able to understand 25% of what is being said, even that should be deemed, as good communication skills are very good. Beyond this one should not even aspire for.
Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance.
Bryant McGill -
You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need.
Saad Salman -
Choosing the right career is the most difficult task for a person who is multi-talented and versatile. Because its hard to decide what field to go into, when you are good at too many things.
Emi Iyalla -
If your current skill doesn’t pay your bills, perhaps you should re-tool - and fast at that. The pursuit of knowledge and the skills that come with it must be done strategically. We must put the society we live in into serious consideration before we embark on this journey otherwise make urgent adjustments if we have gone astray. We can’t isolate our skills from the need of the society we live in. Well, actually, we can, but to our peril.
Leonard Wibberley -
I made the valuable discovery that practicing wasn't a matter of time at all. It was a matter of intensity. Five minutes spent working consciously and hard at the elimination of an error, was worth five hours just playing away ignoring errors as if they hadn't happened.
Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up. Teaching her to shoot, helping her with her first baby, coaching her in how to handle a knife, working out with her in martial arts, all the homey domestic skills a girl needs in this modern world.
Janice Anderson -
The greater the fear, the greater the opportunity for growth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Asuni LadyZeal -
Life expects us to challenge the status-quo YET it holds us responsible for ONLY what we can ordinarily do. Life doesn't ask us for too much; it says "to do more, expand your lens". Expand your skills, expand your tools, expand your mind. To do more, be more!
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe - The Reason
The boundaries of your abilities are set by no one else but yourself, ultimately, and it is up to you when they will be pushed.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe - The Reason
Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
A man begins to exist with a divine mission.
Jan Mckingley Hilado - Rich Real Radical: 40 Lessons from a Magna Cum Laude and a College Drop Out
Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe - The Reason
You can always learn to do more than you can at any point in your life.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon -
Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to correct his manner of speaking. With far nobler themes, let us not be less ambitious to excel.
Soraya Diase Coffelt -
Good literacy skills can help children:-Be healthy and safe.-Do their homework to their best ability.-Get and keep a job one day.-Eventually participate in local committees or government
honeya -
Sales can never be done with 'good' skills or 'good' communication or 'thorough' product knowledge.. It can only be done with PASSION and U gotta be a people loving person, to be alive in sales...
Unarine Ramaru -
True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations.
Ricky Maye - Barefoot Christianity
Skills do not qualify or disqualify any of us from our purpose.
Marian Deegan - Relevance: Matter More
Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a path beyond the mundane and into the relevant.
David Grossman -
One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.
Pat Conroy - Beach Music
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
Angelica Hopes -
Many or few alternatives can be at hand. A wise and skilful choice acts from a sincere effort. Solutions and results come from cooperation, hard work and efficiency. With high intention matched with a flexible, patient heart and proficient action gets best quality and value. As for the restless grumbles raving from unconsciousness of complexity of matters, best be brushed off ducking out wisely from discourtesies.
oladosu feyikogbon -
You can't lead when you have not been loaded with the skills of immagination.
Sunday Adelaja -
To render help is to have the skills needed
Sunday Adelaja -
Today however, a new generation must arise that will take their works further. This generation must rely less on signs and wonders but rely more on developing skills and building industries
Colin Clark - My Week With Marilyn
Skills are common. Talent is rare.
Israelmore Ayivor -
Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak through a prolong period of flood. We must work our talents out and work them out skillfully and then our rainbow of excellence will show.
Laillah Gifty Akita -
You have a great potential. Explore your special skills.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
You have great potential. Explore your special skills.
Marian Deegan - Relevance: Matter More
Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our skills are tested and refined.
Widad Akreyi -
When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field of conflict management.
Prince Akwarandu -
Your mind is such a crucial asset to a victorious life. The mind is the eye of a man. What it sees and accepts shapes a man's life and determines his destiny.
Lionel Suggs -
Experience and miracle are two agents crafted with different names and meanings, yet express the exact same nature. It takes a miracle to gap experience. It takes experience to close the wall of a miracle. In the end, the only real difference...is skill.
Kofi Annan -
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Diane Lane -
I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.
Warren Farrell -
Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
Bernard Kelvin Clive -
The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference
Bernard Kelvin Clive - The No Nonsense Guide to Personal Branding for Career Success
In this value driven and ‘connection economy’, skills & talents alone are dime-a-dozen, you need to be able to add value to others and build great connections
ShahenshahHK -
Skills are keys to the lock of success, as the time passes the effort in opening the lock becomes more intense, we start blaming the lock, but we seldom realize that the keys also need polishing, we keep checking the lock but fail to understand that the rust can form on keys as well.
Parker J. Palmer - Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them them than we are of breathing.
Antony Starr -
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.
Martin Rees -
To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.
Harvey Mackay -
Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.
Thomas E. Mann -
All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.