Top 480 Skill Quotes

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

A good dancer is not necessarily defined by great technique, skill, or ability to pick up choreography but by confidence. When you feel the music, it penetrates to your soul. Everybody’s a dancer. The greatest dancer is someone who is willing to dance, not afraid.

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

Felipe Anderson’s got a good engine, pace, skill, passing ability and a decent shot on him.

I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.

I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you’ll know exactly who directed it. I don’t have that skill.

You can’t build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience in a certain way. It’s not really so much about transforming yourself the way actors do onstage. I think there’s a difference between the skill of acting in movies and onstage.

What Kirk wanted every evening was to go to bed with a beautiful woman. Our captain now is a man of infinitely more skill. A better man.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

When I was young, you were told that if you had a skill, you would find a job for life and you could bring up a family on the wage.

A number of Donald Trump’s supporters told me during the campaign they had faith that he would be a good president because he would be helped by the experts around him. But the president’s improvisation saps experts of their key skill: pattern recognition.

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn’t know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

The notion is tough guys challenge the bench and skill players never do. I’m considered a skilled player, but I don’t carry myself like a skilled player.

We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It’s not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.

What I’ve always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has – the discipline and expression – letting you dance.

Even in comedy, I’m always the straight guy, which is okay because that’s a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.

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.

I find putting oneself out there difficult. I think writing and sharing writing require different skill sets. I want to be read, but it takes courage to ask someone to read your work.

What we found while making Milo, is that part of the skill of designing this whole new experience is in making people comfortable with the fact that they can be seen.

If my strength is technology, financial structuring is my son’s skill.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Actors are real. It’s a real skill, and it exists, and talent really exists.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

I need that name in Rashad Evans, a name that UFC and the fans respect. They know his skill set. They know what he can do. You go out there and beat a guy like that, you’ve proved yourself to the UFC and to the fans.

When you dance together, there’s a fabulous interaction. It’s quite intimate. You’re touching your partner, leading them. Learning how to behave in that person’s proximity is a skill. I love it. I can’t imagine tiring of it.

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.

There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

Cricket and tennis are very different skill sets, but I’ve played tennis all my life, so it’s a lot easier coming back than learning how to face a cricket ball for the first time.

I’m super athletic and I love to work out, and obviously I need to workout for my industry as well, but I love learning something and developing that skill and feeling strong. Girls who can kick butt are hot.

I don’t know how to do anything else and lack any skill that would be applicable on a resume. Drag is what I know. The gigs are my life.

When my mom was sick and in the hospital, I did for the first time feel really bad that a lot of men aren’t taught how to take care of other people very well. It’s not as important of a skill for them as other things, in the same way that I really resent not being given a toolbox when I was younger.

Sometimes you can feel the gears shifting in scripts, like really trying to make something work that feels sweaty for whatever reason. I really enjoy reading material that just flows – it’s definitely a skill to make something feel effortless.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick – it seems like a decent skill to have.

The reason the art world doesn’t respond to Kinkade is because none – not one – of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They’re all cliche and already told.

In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.

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.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

America’s men and women in uniform bravely defend our nation and our values. Their skill, dedication, and valor are the envy of the world. When their time in uniform is over, they are entitled to world-class health care, a benefit they’ve earned and that their country is grateful to provide for them.

So it’s probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

We all know that reading is an invaluable life skill. It is vital for children in their education and as they take their place in the grown-up world.

The toughest injury I’ve played with was I tore my planter fascia in my foot. As a receiver, as a skill position, anytime you get your wheels, so to speak, messed up, it’s hard to play like you want to play.

If you want people to know how much you care, show them how much you remember. Learn their names and use them often. It’s an important skill to develop.

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play – and I wasn’t a skater.

Even great actors who transform who they are still go to a really honest place; I think that’s sort of that special skill that actors have.

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

I’m an electrical engineer. Honestly, I think we have too many lawyers in Washington. Maybe we need some more engineers. They’re trained to solve problems, and we can actually do math, which is a desperately needed skill back there.

I am always concerned with finding the right spot and the right shot, so sometimes I forget to appreciate the skill of my fellow adventurers, but I am aware of how my life has been changed by my ability with a camera.

When you’re female working in a male-dominated industry, there are unfortunately extra things you need to do – for example, couch opinions in a way that sounds palatable and not threatening. That’s a skill I developed.

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.