Skill Quotes
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Dance classes are not designed to be workouts - they're designed to teach skill.
Anna Kaiser -
Successful leaders view the journey more like the captain of a sailboat, relying on their skill and know-how, but knowing all along that the wind (help from other sources) is the force that will get them to their destination.
Dan T. Cathy
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I truly find inspiration everywhere. I always tell students, and young people starting out, that the single most important skill, next to listening, is to pay attention. You never know where inspiration will strike.
Nickelson Wooster -
The will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali -
It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
Cameron Russell -
No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.
Summer Sanders -
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 -
France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.
Narendra Modi
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I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.
Lena Horne -
Our talent and skill as rappers is clearly the first thing you notice. I don't know what we were thinking. We just really love rap and wanted to be rappers. Is that weird?
Ad-Rock The Beastie Boys -
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.
James Boswell -
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
Jules Verne -
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.
Bob Hoover -
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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It's a very important skill set for an actor to be able to bring the humor into any moment, whether you're doing drama or comedy.
Nathaniel Buzolic -
I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.
Marianne Williamson -
By about the year 2000 Communist China will be a “superpower” built by American technology and skill.
Antony C. Sutton -
A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still
Emily Dickinson -
The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments
Lee Iacocca -
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
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Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali -
To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.
Howard Staunton -
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
George Eliot -
Any manual skill gives its practitioner much personal pleasure, particularly when it is one that admits of constant improvement.
R. M. Williams