Skill Quotes

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.

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

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.

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.

Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

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!

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

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.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

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.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

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.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.