Quotes of: Skills Keyword

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.

James Gray

I think it now comes down to whether you have the skills or not.

Jordan Knight

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Sugata Mitra

Mushu: You know, we have to work on your people skills.

Mulan

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

Thomas Menino

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

John Bytheway

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

Kip Winger

My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

Al Seckel

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

Andreas Schleicher

For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work.

Joshua Malina

Changes in the Perception of Self: People who have been traumatized in childhood are often troubled by guilt, shame, and negative feelings about themselves, such as the belief they are unlikable, unlovable, stupid, inept, dirty, worthless, lazy, and ...

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice ...

The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the “widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spati...

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so. (The proviso is...

Sceptical Essays

I fixed your car," he said, tossing the keys from a jade dish on the little maple end table. I palmed them and eyed him speculatively. "You fixed my car?" "I have walked the earth for more than a century. I managed to pick up some skills along the wa...

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

Before I ever knew what the word Entrepeneur was, I realized in America and in the Western part of the world in general, you are given the opportunity to be whatever you want to be. And that is all anyone should ever expect from the Capitalist system...

Gene Simmons

You will and should do everything in your power to improve your actual writing skills. You’ll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it’s the story that matters. Don’t ever let the other stuff get ...

James Dashner

Fezzik: We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone. Man in Black: You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people? Fezzik...

The Princess Bride

The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom