Experience and miracle are two agents crafted with different names and meanings, yet express the exact same nature. It takes a miracle to gap experience. It takes experience to close the wall of a miracle. In the end, the only real difference...is skill.
~ Lionel Suggs
The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the outcome of indiscriminate trials to their own gambling “strategies.” We often hear people say that they are lucky or unlucky, when in actuality they can claim no ownership in the occurrence of chaotic outcomes. A false sense of the existence of luck can cause people to discount the value of their actual effort, skill, and training.
~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Your mind is such a crucial asset to a victorious life. The mind is the eye of a man. What it sees and accepts shapes a man's life and determines his destiny.
~ Prince Akwarandu
Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our skills are tested and refined.
~ Marian Deegan
Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them them than we are of breathing.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Skills are keys to the lock of success, as the time passes the effort in opening the lock becomes more intense, we start blaming the lock, but we seldom realize that the keys also need polishing, we keep checking the lock but fail to understand that the rust can form on keys as well.
~ Shahenshahhk
In this value driven and ‘connection economy’, skills & talents alone are dime-a-dozen, you need to be able to add value to others and build great connections
~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
~ Kofi Annan
Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
~ Warren Farrell
I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.
~ Diane Lane
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.
~ Antony Starr
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
~ John Stossel
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.
~ Willard Wigan
One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.
~ Tom Peters
Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.
~ Harvey Mackay
To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.
~ Martin Rees
All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.
~ Thomas E. Mann
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
~ Bill Gates
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
Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.
~ Gina Raimondo
It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.
~ Tori Spelling
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
~ Marilyn Vos Savant
In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.
~ Stephen Lang
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
~ Amy Waldman
The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
~ Richard Branson
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
~ Steven Pressfield
The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.
~ Ridley Scott
Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
~ Michelle Obama
The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
~ Angela Merkel
In order to invest in our future, we must ensure that we appropriately protect programs that provide skills, services, and education for middle-class Americans rather than providing tax breaks for large corporations.
~ John F. Tierney
Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
~ Rahul Dravid
I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.
~ Ashwin Sanghi
We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.
~ Gordon Brown
