Skill Quotes

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

~ John Milius

Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.

~ Natalie Dormer

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

~ James Altucher

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

~ Wilbur Wright

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

~ Stephen Covey

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

~ Shinichi Suzuki

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

~ John Ruskin

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

~ Peter Drucker

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

~ Lewis Howes

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

~ John Bunyan

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

~ Dan Gable

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

~ Diane Ackerman

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

~ Steven Spielberg

There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.

~ Felicity Jones

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

~ Ben Horowitz

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

~ William Godwin

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

~ John Lydon

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

~ Bill Gates

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

~ Leland Stanford

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

~ Ellen Key

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

~ Scott Adams

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.

~ Julius Caesar

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

~ Mathieu Amalric

The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

~ Rahul Dravid

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

~ Janet Napolitano