Even though people do not traditionally think of being empathetic as a business skill, it can create enormous value.
All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven’t got that kind of energy, or skill.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.
I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he creates.
Tempura chefs are sort of like the Jedi of the cooking world: They must deftly perform with the utmost skill and precision, using extremely dangerous tools, all while maintaining a calm, serene demeanor. It is an elegant technique, from a more civilized time.
Women have shown their skills and that’s why they have been accepted in the industry. It’s through their skill that they have managed to make a mark for themselves and also earned respect.
I know why the UFC runs the business the way they do. I know why Conor McGregor makes a base pay of $3 million. But I think I justify my pay with my skill set, and I’ve always been willing to promote my brand.
When you have five skill positions, if all five of them are contributing to the offensive effort, then that’s balanced.
I took the name Green Destiny from – well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it’s an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
I’ve built a career on the survival skill I honed early on: being a smart aleck who is good with a fast comeback.
Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
I think playing multiple sports is by far the best way to go. You’re talking about different teammates, different skill sets, different mentalities.
France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.
Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
I’ve been working hard on my fitness, skill, everything. Luckily it paid off.
One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, ‘We’re going to do this one and we’re only going to do this one’. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
Our show is all about energy and all about the skill, so we never have to alter it for different audiences, although maybe we might get crazier at a punk-rock show. With kids moshing and crowd-surfing, we might have to get crazy as well.
Once you’re inside that Octagon, it’s one-on-one. Your skill versus his skill. Your heart versus his heart.
In modeling you rarely get the opportunity to learn a new skill for a project and I love a challenge.
Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That’s only half the equation.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it’s in our unity that we’ll have the greatest strength.
I started training with Fabricio Itte with my wrestling and high performance; I started spending a lot more time with my head coach Henry Perez and also my grappling coach Alex Prates. Those three are my core team, and they’ve made hugely important changes and skill enhancements with my game.
Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.
It’s a real skill to take a piece of literature and make it in cinema. It’s quite a different form, and I think I have to respect that.
True confidence is firmly planted in reality. To grow your confidence, it’s important to do an honest and accurate self-assessment of your abilities. If there are weaknesses in your skill set, make plans for strengthening these skills and find ways to minimize their negative impact.
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can’t play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
I want to do more movies. I feel like it’s a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It’s much more internal.
What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
Also, they don’t understand – writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don’t we scale up those things that do work.
A school culinary education is a militant operation. In that world, everything depends on grading and competition. The emotional element is extracted, leaving raw, regimented skill.
I’ve given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don’t stop until it’s done.
When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can’t acquire it if you’re afraid of keeping score.
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
People think that the arts are optional and they aren’t. They teach a level of emotional depth that’s equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there’s no calculator for human interaction.
There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.
People take years learning how to act; it’s a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I’d be OK, then perhaps I’d go for it, but it’s not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.
I’m very happy to be associated with Playing 11; fantasy gaming is growing very rapidly and Playing 11 is a great stage for people/users to use their skill, create enthusiasm, fun from the comfort of your device.
I think the modern-day wide receiver, I would say that his skill level is not appreciated. It’s not just about the numbers. It’s the ability to catch the football and put your talent on display.
I always tell young journalists to leverage what you have. If you have a particular language skill or access to a particular place or culture in a way that others don’t, that’s your advantage.
I really value the skill and sensitivity of my collaborators, and I am really interested in – perhaps more so than if I was a male director – the hair, makeup and the textures of the fabric and the wallpaper.
Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is – in my opinion – the most under-appreciated human skill in business.
There is no more important foundational skill than reading.
I come from a background in the military where everyone had health care. We understood the value of education as a given. You learn a skill, earn a pension and go on to ‘Be all that you can be’… You invest in people. You hold people accountable.
Writing’s a great skill, but thinking’s a better one.
Gun skill is never the main reason why someone is talented at a game. It’s literally their decision making.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Players want to get better with their skill set and 3-point shooting, ballhandling, their bodies, whatever it is, but everything starts with a sense of urgency.
Masochism is a valuable job skill.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director’s point of view.
Sometimes it’s harder to untrain somebody with dance experience than it is to teach somebody with a new skill.
Something that is unique to coaching young people is there is such a range of talent, skill development and personality. And it’s important to coach age-appropriately. You want to instill the fundamentals, always. But the right fundamentals.
I’m not a normal director. You can’t look at me that way. What’s kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.
