Skill Quotes - page 22

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. (John Milius)
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. View quote
John Milius
I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill. View quote
John Shirley
I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that. View quote
Jonny Lang
I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end. View quote
Jonny Lee Miller
Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources. View quote
Julian Baggini
Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were. View quote
Justina Chen
Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools. View quote
Ken Rockwell
I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill. View quote
King Krule
I'm a character actor; that's my skill set. View quote
Kristin Lehman
I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering. (Karlie Kloss)
If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy. View quote
Kate Reardon
Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it. View quote
Lawrence Hargrave
Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022. View quote
M. M. Pallam Raju
I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult. View quote
Mark Strickson
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. View quote
Adam Scott
In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience in a certain way. It's not really so much about transforming yourself the way actors do onstage. I think there's a difference between the skill of acting in movies and onstage. View quote
Brooke Adams
I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill. View quote
Charlotte Riley
'Big Time Rush' was a great show, and I had some great experiences. It allowed me to become more of a comedic actress, which is also a great skill to have. But there wasn't a whole lot of tragedy in there. Not quite as dark as 'Red Band Society.' So I've been very lucky to have been able to grow in that sense, just through moving to FOX. View quote
Ciara Bravo
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. View quote
J. M. Roberts
Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features. (John Montgomery Ward)
You see a lot of European influence coming in with bigger guys having a larger skill set, shoot the ball, handle the ball, pass the ball. I'm hoping that'll develop into something I can do. View quote
Kelly Olynyk
I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from. View quote
Kelly Olynyk
It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music. View quote
Lisa Hannigan
Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill. View quote
Mathieu Amalric