Skill Quotes

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

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

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards.

I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

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

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

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.