Skill Quotes

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

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

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.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

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

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

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.

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.

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

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

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.

So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.