Skill Quotes - page 6

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. (Paul Rand)
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there. View quote
Venus Williams
There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you. View quote
Avery Brooks
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read. View quote
Bob Riley
If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth. View quote
Brittany Daniel
When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. View quote
Bruce Feiler
Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down. View quote
Chris Hayes
So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill. View quote
Chris LeDoux
There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky. View quote
Colin Mochrie
We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed. (David Milne)
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future. View quote
David Whyte
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. View quote
Diane Cilento
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill. View quote
Douglas Horton
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. View quote
Edward Victor Appleton
If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill. View quote
Frank Langella
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one. View quote
Gavin Bryars
There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind. View quote
Henry Reed
There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket. View quote
Howie Mandel
You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill. View quote
Howie Mandel
People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. (Hal Sparks)
I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. View quote
Helen McCrory
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. View quote
Janet Napolitano
The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating. View quote
Jeffrey Kluger
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. View quote
Jock Sturges