Skills Quotes - Page 23

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification have been developed by economists. One is the method of partial equilibrium analysis (or microeconomics), generally associated with the name of Alfred Marshall and the other is the method of aggregation (or macro-economics), associated with the name of John Maynard Keynes.

Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.

I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

National Permaculture Day is a chance to share thoughts, visions and lots of common sense ways that we can all make a positive difference to the world we live in. Its all about combining age old truths and skills with new and innovative thinking and technologies….people, plants and landscapes growing together, designing and nurturing a healthy community along the way.

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.

Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.

It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do that," but I'm actually a very skilled artist. That's why I released a Jack Nicholson portrait right after that that was very detailed in the face to show my skills.

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

There are a lot of guys out there with skills who have not contributed to the evolution of the instrument. It's about more than that...it's an emotive language, an aesthetic. Skill is an aspect, but it's what you do with that skill, or say with that skill, that matters.

Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.

Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.

The good news - and it is largely good news - is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark

Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications.