Skill Quotes

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

~ Carla H. Krueger

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.

~ Diogenes Laërtius

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

~ Amit Kalantri

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

~ Santosh Adbhut Kumar

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.

~ Awdhesh Singh

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself.

~ Daphne Delacroix

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

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Brian Jacques

...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...

~ John Geddes

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

~ Eliel Pierre

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

~ Enock Maregesi

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?

~ Neil Gaiman

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...

~ Assegid Habtewold

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

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

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.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

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.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Vicdo

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

~ Baltasar Gracián

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.

~ Christopher Fowler

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.

~ Henry Ford

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

~ Edward Appleton

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

~ Ralph Marston

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

~ Brit Hume

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.

~ Zach Anner

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

~ Jill Mccorkle

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.

~ Kevin Mitnick

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.

~ Bertrand Russell

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

~ Travis Bradberry

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.

~ Charles Babbage

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.

~ Philip Sidney

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

~ Thomas Fuller

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

~ Herodotus

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

~ James J. Corbett

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

~ David Duchovny

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.

~ Adam Scott

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

~ Gail Simmons

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.

~ Leland Stanford

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.

~ Joshua Bell

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.

~ Alison Gopnik

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.

~ Nate Silver