Skills Quotes - Page 8

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

Better we raise our skill than lower the climb

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote. A techie without actors is a person with marketable skills.

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.

Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.

Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone

Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.