Skills Quotes - Page 30

Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

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

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.

There are three sides to every coin (Heads, Tails, and The Edge). Your ability to understand contrasting points of view and your ability to glean what information you believe to be valuable from each side is a crucial skill.

When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.

I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing to produce the people that are not going to be the drivers of industrialisation. So that needs the discipline of both training institutions and policies that drive our people to industrialisation.

It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.

True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.

Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.

I feel like, if I'm being honest with myself, my biggest skill set is as a writer 'cause I can do that quickly and I'm really grounded in story structure. Part of my success as an actor, is that I know story well. Part of my success as a director, is how well I know story. Same thing, as a producer. It all begins and ends with me as a story creator. But, I love doing it all.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.

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

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill.

I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.