Skill Quotes
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Orville Wright
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
Daniel Radcliffe
Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
Edward Dmytryk
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.
John Hench
Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
Ron Silver
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
William Graham Sumner
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
David Hockney
I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it.
Keira Knightley
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
Ray Dolby
Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.
Michael Symon
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.
Edward Klein
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
Richie Benaud
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
Dan Gable
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
Iain Banks
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
Jim Lehrer
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Eric Hoffer
The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.
Chuck Jones
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Edward de Bono
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.
Leland Stanford
You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.
Billy Joe Saunders
The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.
Lorrie Fair
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
Brit Hume