Skill Quotes - page 21

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career. (Darren Flutie)
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. View quote
Ellen Key
Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me. View quote
Eric Balfour
I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill. View quote
Erin Heatherton
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic. View quote
Ernie Harwell
We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill... we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up. View quote
Esther Forbes
Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration. View quote
Eve Arnold
Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity. View quote
Edward Dmytryk
Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern. View quote
Edward Klein
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. View quote
Edwin Schlossberg
Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill of holding pages in my hand and acting with pages in my hand. I find that every time I have to look at the page it takes me completely out of the scene. (Freddy Rodriguez)
Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day. View quote
Finn Wittrock
Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. View quote
Gail Simmons
Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit. View quote
Graham Roberts
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. View quote
Howard Rheingold
You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own. View quote
Howard Schultz
I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal. View quote
Jamie Campbell Bower
My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together. View quote
Jesse Eisenberg
I'm super athletic and I love to work out, and obviously I need to workout for my industry as well, but I love learning something and developing that skill and feeling strong. Girls who can kick butt are hot. View quote
Jessica Clark
As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid. View quote
Jill Lepore
Humor - I see it as a survival skill. (Jill McCorkle)
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do. View quote
Jim Lehrer
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down. View quote
Joe Madureira
If you have the skill, then you can move as you age. View quote
Joe Morton
Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images. View quote
John Hench