393 Skill Quotes for You to Enjoy

It takes me some time to get into what I am doing - since I am not a trained actor, I don't have that skill. I have to think of what I am doing and how it comes through. Dimple Kapadia

Time Me Think Some Through Takes Since How Am Doing Trained Get Skill Actor

Being a CEO requires a specific skill set, and a background in engineering equips individuals with the ability to plan logically and make decisions that fit properly within the context of the business. Dinesh Paliwal

Business Engineering Background Logically Ability Properly Individuals Make Within Context Fit Being Decisions Plan CEO Skill Requires Specific Set

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. Edward de Bono

Creative Creativity Thinking Nurtured Mystical Idea Talent Terms Skill

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it. Elena Kagan

You Integrity Legal People Opportunity Honor Long Rich Extraordinary Solicitor General Only Lifetime Lead Know Also Due Tradition Led Office Skill Measure Who Large Large Measure Professionalism

There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is. Ellen Terry

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

Youth Part Make Make Up Loss Up Skill Actress Amount

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice? Elliot Richardson

Work Needs Legal Will Important Practice Every Frame Rule Way Though Responsive Properly General General Rule Demands Policy Always How Question Effort Task Human Public Skill Human Needs Public Policy

I love what I do. I love getting to talk with these people, and I feel like I'm learning something every day. You also have to be a really good listener, which I think is an underestimated skill. Emily Chang

Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me. Eric Balfour

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. Eric Hoffer

Faith Mountains Move Where Moves Skill Technical Necessary Need

Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets. Eric S. Raymond

Best People Money Passion Field Way More Higher True Becomes Motivated Score Gets Any Just Skill Keep Level

Games of chance often involve some amount of skill; this does not make them legal. Good poker players often beat novices. But poker is still gambling, and running a poker room - or online casino - is illegal in New York. Eric Schneiderman

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After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse. Eugene Fama

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The problem that people don't understand is that active managers, almost by definition, have to be poorly diversified. Otherwise, they're not really active. They have to make bets. What that means is there's a huge dispersion of outcomes that are totally consistent with just chance. There's no skill involved it. It's just good luck or bad luck. Eugene Fama

Good People Bad Luck Problem Luck Active Otherwise Good Luck Consistent Definition Bad Outcomes Totally Bets Diversified Almost Involved Make Understand Huge Managers Just Poorly Really Skill Means Chance

Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration. Eve Arnold

You Musicians Recording Everything Out Photograph Photographer Performers Pictures Concentration Because Motion Stimulating Were Subject Up Targets Reflexes Get Break While Sensitivity Moving Skill Keep Fast Keeping Technicians Needed

I try and make it possible for beginners to start training MMA and not be scared of it as a sport. I try to actually give them the skill set that is necessary - to feel comfortable, maybe not on a big level. And not just Russia, but worldwide. Fedor Emelianenko

There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective. Felicity Jones

You People Perspective Arrogant Own Other Say Bit Would Seeing My Own Take Host Never Feel Like Couple Couple Times Well Does Times Get Goes Oh Just Movies Much Skill Whole Film Level Watch

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran. Fidel Castro

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Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day. Finn Wittrock

Myself Day Every Day People Try Made Every Boot Would Critique About Objective More Scenes Like Operas Learned Sort Camera Lot Camps Than Shoot Soap Soap Operas Little Realize Really Skill Working Film Actor Film Actors Watch Set

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill. Florence Welch

Enthusiasm Style More Instinct Than Skill Playing

'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill. Florence Welch

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It does make it very clear, you know, what can happen if you do have... the right people, the right skill mix, that are trained and they're assembled in this team and they work together under the right leadership. You know, what a miracle can happen. And that's what was the case of Apollo 13. Fred Haise

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. Gail Simmons

Me Patience Cooking Something Came Quintessential Skill Naturally

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