Best 212 quotes in «skill quotes» category

Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. It was a peculiar life skill and one I had gotten damn good at.

No matter how much experience you have, how many degrees you have, or how well known you have become — there is always something new to learn. Don’t rest on your past experiences. If you do nothing to improve your skills, you won’t stay where you are.

Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.

...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own.

No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.

People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they aren’t human.

[...] Popæus Sabinus [...] maximisque provinciis per quatuor et viginti annos impositus; nullam ob eximiam artem , sed quod par negotiis , neque supra erat.

Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

Schooling doesn't assure employment but skill does.

See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself.

Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth.

Skill is the bridge between success and great success.

Skill supersedes strength.

Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.

Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.

Success, Bill Gates said, is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Same goes for good looking people. Beauty reduces the consciousness that it takes more to catch the heart of the right partner. We often think being good at one thing is all we need to succeed, but hey, success is less of what you are good at, but more of what you are good for. Of what use is beauty with no brains, culture without character, knowledge that does not impact, or skill that does not add value? For any seemingly "good" thing to last, great attention we must pay to the unseen intrinsic component that sustains it.

Success is all about what you prove to know and do.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you. Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

Never doubt your ability unless you have put them into practice.

One work of genius is better than a thousand works of talent.

Personality is a skill.

Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.

Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.

Regardless of where you started, there is always the next level. You need to keep leveling up your skills.

Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.

Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.

Some artists are criticised, some artists are admired, but some artists are loved and they are the one who are remembered.

Some people can’t help being leaders. It’s in their blood and bones and brains, and there’s no getting around it. And some people follow.

Stars do not pull each other down to be more visible; they shine brighter.

Still, there is something disappearing from the world, something composed of many instances of tradition and skill, or maybe not disappearing, but translating. Maybe culture, like physical matter, doesn’t disappear, but is subject to infinite play, and th e world is a vast workshop for making and remaking everything, including people, and the engine of play is desire…

Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish.

Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him

Talent is intelligent, brilliance is clever, genius is wise.

Talent is a spark, genius is the flame.

Talent makes the rules. Skill follows the rules. Brilliance bends the rules. Genius breaks the rules.

Talent silences your competition; genius deafens them.

Ten years from now it wont really matter what school you attended, whether online or offline education, free or paid, widely known or not, what will matter most is what you learned, the skills you acquired and how you leveraged it. Use every opportunity to better yourself.

The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.

The archer is the true weapon; the bow is just a long piece of wood.

The art of a sincere and heartfelt apology is one of the greatest skills you will ever learn.

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

The Excellence Manifesto #1 I pledge myself to patience. I pledge myself to boldness. I pledge myself to kindness. I pledge myself to prudence. I pledge myself to cheerfulness. I pledge myself to genuineness. I pledge myself to goodness. I commit to skilfulness. I commit to diligence. I commit to resourcefulness. I commit to excellence. I commit to perseverance. I commit to brilliance. I commit to transcendence.

The greatest skill is the ability to persevere.

The knowledge of the worker is often called ‘skill’, for it requires manual dexterity and training. The knowledge of the manager is ‘academic’ as it can be taught in colleges and universities. However, the knowledge of the leader is ‘creative’ which can generally not be taught, and must come from within.

The more you express your skills, the more experienced you become and the closer you get to excellence.

The most thought to keep in mind is that "players" gain money at the end of each game while "spectators" lose it for a ticket in order to see the gainful players display their skills. Don't you want to keep watching your dreams or you want to get on the run with them?