Talent without skill is like a desert without an oasis.
All skill is in vain when an angel pees in the touchhole of your musket.
Skills make dreams happen. They build economies. They make people rich and famous. In today’s world, the demands for skills are staggering. Government, business and individuals have too much to achieve, their goals are huge. They are constantly, an...
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very ‘gifted’ improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvi...
Inner Awareness is often gained in incremental steps at first. The distraction of the perceived physical world dictates this. However, once one realizes this process, a new skill in “awareness recognition” emerges… and like riding a bike for th...
I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.
Skill + hard work = Success Skill + hard work + prayer = Great success
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.
One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.
People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.
Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.
Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowe's, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.
