Players like Alastair Cook do not come around very often. To play for so long and achieve so much says everything about his fitness, concentration, discipline and skill.
No matter whether you’re an Olympic swimmer or you’re someone who doesn’t like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can’t be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.
Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.
My power is a characteristic of my skill, no different than someone who’s smaller and has speed as their skill.
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
The football in Spain is more about skill and technique. Every team tries to play good football. The physical side, with plenty of running and hard tackling, plays more of a role in the Bundesliga.
There’s many times this year I’ve sat back and thought, I’m making a living from making things up. It’s the only skill I have so I’ve been really lucky.
We’re all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
As a company, whatever the business outlook is, you want to make sure you have new skill sets coming into the company.
A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire.
Now that I know how to handle a bow and arrow, I find it very therapeutic. It is a brilliant way to ease your mind, so I am going to keep it up in my free time. It is a very fun skill to have.
The word ‘yoga’ means skill – skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.
Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
It’s not requirement to have a point guard, you can have skill players with 3 or 4 guys on the same team playing multiple positions.
If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
Thats part of what I love about photography – the images I like are the ones that look the most relaxed, but a lot of skill goes into making them look that that relaxed.
A country without engineering skill and knowledge will never become a developed country.
A resident’s surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can’t be sloppy, and you can’t be slow.
There are franchise players to build around that have championship-level talent, skill, basketball IQ, and character – it’s hard to find those guys. Those guys are rare.
My height doesn’t define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature – and I try to bring that on a daily basis.
There must be a level of skill, but that is not necessarily why people watch my videos.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
My first job out of law school was on the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, where Gorsuch is a judge. I observed in the year that I worked at the court what many litigants and commentators have since noted: that Gorsuch possesses an incisive legal mind, writes with skill and wit, and is scrupulously fair.
I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that’s very, very difficult.
Wherever people come from, that’s irrelevant as far as I’m concerned. What is important is that they bring a skill or a talent or something that’s going to benefit America.
Happiness doesn’t just happen. It must be pursued. And if the pursuit of the ‘ultimate currency’ of happiness helps us choose occupations that confer present and future benefit, and these choices, in turn, motivate us to succeed, this strikes me as perhaps the most powerful non-cognitive skill of all.
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it’s core, it’s solving a problem; you’re not building technology for the sake of technology.
I always love to look at something that I couldn’t make, because I feel it’s enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, ‘Wow!’ It’s a skill that I don’t have, but I can understand the merit of it.
I’ve never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it’s not been the way my brain works.
The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don’t learn any foreign language.
I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn’t have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.
Jews, black people – any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people – use humour. It is a survival skill.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
The way I saw it was, if I had the built-in following and the audience, but I also had the skill set of acting, that would shoot me to the top. Because there’s so many good actors. There’s so many good-looking people. But the X factor now is social media.
I say I design music. I can imagine it and sort of picture it. I think about all of the things I do in the world and say that I’m designing it because it takes the same skill set.
Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.
A lot of people want to collaborate with people because of their level and status, but really I want to create with Beyonce just because of her skill and because of the history we have together.
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don’t know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
Just observing – that’s the best skill of all for an actor!
You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.
I’m enjoying doing research, to get better at the guitar, to get better at rhyming. That’s an essential skill.
I’m just a human whose skill is making music.
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you’re waiting to kick the door down.
The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That’s where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you’re more a curator, but that’s important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.
Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.
I was constantly reading books about how to direct, and asking directors, ‘How do you do it?’ And when I finally actually started doing the work, it seemed like you have to be decisive and have an opinion. But also you have to be a good collaborator and hire the right people to shore up whatever your skill set is.
To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.
Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don’t use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.
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.
Honestly, being a 5’11” quarterback, not too many people think that you can play in the National Football League. And so for me, you know, I knew that my height doesn’t define my skill set, you know? I believed in my talent. I believed in what God gave me. I believed in the knowledge that I have of the game.
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends.
People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can’t do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can’t drive.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
