Things you don't expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can't let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.
When an impressive level skill is accompanied with consistent action on the right plan, success becomes the only possible destination.
I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.
The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.
A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own.
I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.
Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.
Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'
Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
My 'people skills' are 'rusty.' Pardon me but I have spent the last year as a multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent.
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
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.
