Quotes and Sayings About Skills
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.
-- Adam Grant -
At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.
-- Adam Pally -
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
-- Ai Weiwei -
What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.
-- Al Seckel -
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.
-- Alan Blinder -
When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.
-- Alan Mullery -
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
-- Alan Turing -
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.
-- Alan Watts -
I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.
-- Alastair Campbell -
Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
-- Albert Camus -
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
-- Albert Einstein -
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
-- Albert Einstein -
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
-- Albert Einstein -
To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace as the late Dag Hammarskjold, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness and peace...
-- Albert Lutuli -
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.
-- Alexander Crum Brown -
The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
-- Alexander Pope -
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
-- Alexander Pope -
Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.
-- Alexander the Great -
It [RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE] has definitely been the biggest learning curve for me. As an actor, whenever I start on a movie, different things that I perform in ask for different skill sets. And this one is definitely the technological side of it. You have to hit your mark. You can't weave back and forth because your nose is jutting at you in 3-D. It's really been learning how to do that and also it's exciting to be on the forefront of this technology.
-- Ali Larter -
I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.
-- Alicia Vikander -
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
-- Alistair Cooke -
There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.
-- Allison Mackie -
Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
-- Ally Carter -
Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.
-- Ally Carter
