I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance. It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
I graduated high school and I didn’t have a skill set and I didn’t want to go to college. I needed a job.
What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.
After a hard day, choosing to do something to help you feel better – as opposed to staying in a bad mood – is a healthy skill.
Our talent and skill as rappers is clearly the first thing you notice. I don’t know what we were thinking. We just really love rap and wanted to be rappers. Is that weird?
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?
I use my mind. I set up blocks. I wait for things to open. I time up things. I use a lot of skill catching the ball.
There’s only one thing I know what to do, so I’m pretty much otherwise unemployable. The idea that you can make a living from exercising your only skill is wonderful. And it’s wonderful to be read. It’s a really exciting and happy thing to be read.
We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that’s an area we’ve got to keep pressing on.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
I don’t believe in getting lucky, I never have – luck is actually being ready to take advantage of an opportunity when it arises because you have the skill set you need and the drive and determination to do it.
The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could. He taught me how to take square roots, a skill I have retained but do not use often, except to check that I still remember.
The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.
I think there’s an incredible luck or skill for a 45-year-old man to draw like a three-year-old.
There’s no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket.
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.
If I were a carpenter, I’d find a way to empower using that skill. I’m using as much as God has given – my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
I look at sports entertainment/professional wrestling, whichever you want to call it, I look at it as never done. You’re never done learning or getting better or listening, and never done honing your skill.
The dream of Bullfrog is that everybody is employed for their creativity rather than their particular skill.
I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don’t try it without that 10 per cent.
So every time I’m stepping into a project, I know that I will evolve. I know that I will develop my skill set. And at the end of the day, I will turn out a better actor with a better skill set.
I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
A skill is something that you aren’t inherently talented at and that isn’t an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.
I graduated with a degree in musical theater and no skill in anything else to make money; I wish I had gotten a massage therapy kit or something where I could have made my own money.
Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator’s skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
If you’re lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
If you want to be the best gymnast in the world, you have to love the moment. Every single moment that you are competing. Every skill, you have to be showing it off. If you aren’t showing it off, what are you doing?
Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it’s hard to go back.
Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I’m trying to slow myself down.
Once you learn how to roller skate for ‘Starlight Express,’ it’s a lifelong skill you have acquired.
The art of negotiating is a learned skill. It is practiced and often honed in the marketplace as well as legislative bodies.
The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.
Item numbers are a different ball game altogether. I feel no one in Mollywood has the guts or skill to film an item song, without making it look vulgar, as Amal Neerad can.
The skill set that I think we have as actors is so cool because they train you in ways that you never thought you’d be trained. And that’s skills that they can’t take back. So as you go further in your career, you can dump all these skills into things.
The history of philosophy is actually full of people who argue for rather wild and incredible views, and their reputations are based on the skill of arguing for them.
The making of the Barack Obama franchise far exceeded the skill set of Washington’s best. In fact, the recipe for Mr. Obama’s global popularity can be attributed less to political minds and chance than to the enduring power of Hollywood.
Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.
Broadcasting is a brutal, often unfair business, where looks are valued more than skill.
I work a lot on skill demands and changes in labor markets having to do with technology and with trade as well.
Heading is a skill, and it would be a shame to lose that from the game. There is nothing more dramatic than when you see someone score a diving header, for instance.
I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there’s where I got my skill set from.
I couldn’t read the way that other students read, so I would just cheat, which, in my silly brain, I was like, ‘This is a skill that I’m developing – how to just get around everything!’
The game was different then, when I used to play. The ball ran more than the players and to some extent there was greater technical skill.
I believe my speed is my greatest advantage. My skill, my ring generalship… I could go on and on.
Lots of celebrities have had some sort of dance training, especially actors or singers – they have to have some movement skill and be trained physically.
If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.
The one-v-ones and stuff, that’s a special skill in and of itself. That’s the sizzle. Fans love that.
But I still think it’s part of the skill of being a coach or manager – to know who responds to what. And some players do respond to a rollicking. If it needs to be done, you have to do it. As a player, that wasn’t necessarily me.
I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he’s so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.
High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn’t a dreadfully specific skill – it’s taught to millions via our schooling system. And opinions? Well, I’ve yet to meet people without opinions.
Emotional intelligence is a very important skill set, not just to be happier but also to succeed professionally.
Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
