Skill Quotes
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I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.
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We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
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I have a skill set that often helps me get through hurtful moments or experiences. However, sometimes when the pain cuts really deep, my normal go-to exercises just won't work.
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When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
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Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
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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.
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You don't need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality.
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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.
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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.
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Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
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Let their music skill speak for itself. If they are producing good tracks and are resonating with their fans, or even gaining new fans, then that's great.
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Those of us who teach math should try to turn this bug into a feature. We should be up front about the fact that word problems force us to make simplifying assumptions. That’s a valuable skill—it’s called mathematical modeling.
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Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
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We both played last night and I think both teams were a little worn down. In those situations, talent can get you through a game and Slovakia has a lot of skill.
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Any manual skill gives its practitioner much personal pleasure, particularly when it is one that admits of constant improvement.
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People doubted me, said I lacked skill. I'm just trying to stay consistent, use my minutes wisely, and do what I can with the opportunity.
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If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything.
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It's nice when I get offered small parts. But I really think that 'SNL' is what my skill set is best designed for.
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I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.
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To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.
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We have got to wake up in this country and realize that we are not a great team. We coach too much at a young age and we take the skill away from our youngsters.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The woodcut is the most graphic of the printmaking techniques. Its practice demands much technical ability and interest. Kirchner's technical skill made woodcutting easy for him. Thus he came in a spontaneous way through the simplification necessary here to a clear style of representation. We see in his woodcuts, which constantly accompanied his creative work, the formal language of the paintings prefigured.
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It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.
