Top 480 Skill Quotes

What I am used to is ‘Gali Guleiyan,’ and people talking about my performances, what new I have tried in terms of my craft or the skill of storytelling.
Manoj Bajpayee
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don’t. But you can learn how to invent.
Ray Dolby
If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it’s worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It’s like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.
Jewel
More and more people are getting turned out of their corporations and laid off. As more people leave that behind, they’re tapping into their own skill sets and talents and doing something for themselves.
Miguel McKelvey
No skill shapes a child’s future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
Bob Riley
Most kids don’t need to go to a four-year school. They need to go and learn how to use their hands, and we desperately need somebody in the Labor Department that will stress workforce development on kids that don’t want to go to college, but learn a skill.
Tommy Tuberville
I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.
DJ Khaled
I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Sometimes you get players who are faster than you or who can trick you with some skill. Sometimes you make the foul.
Fernandinho
I meditate daily, and I think it’s sort of a life skill.
Christen Press
My overall favourite player would be Iniesta. For his final ball, obviously, his skill, and his ability.
Naby Keita
You know the adage, when you want something done, ask a busy person. It’s so true. Having kids taught me to prioritize, delegate, and accept life’s imperfections. I also learned the all-important skill of jumping off the train: taking breaks in career and passion pursuits to tend to the things that last.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Punting is an underrated art because of the strategy, skill and athleticism involved.
Skip Bayless
Take up martial arts and get proficient. Take a sword-fighting class. Dive in and immerse yourself in it as you would any other acting class, so when the opportunity comes, that skill can be really utilized, and it’s not half-baked.
David Leitch
Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.
Julian Baggini
I still run into people who loved Wave – who thought it was the best ever and can’t believe that Google canceled it. And whenever that happens, it’s like I’m looking at a mirror-image of myself: someone who is similar to myself in skill, experience, and profession. And that’s just not a mass market.
Lars Rasmussen
Writing is really hard, and it’s really a skill.
Caroline Leavitt
I’m just a human whose skill is making music.
Burna Boy
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.
Janet Napolitano
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
I want to shoot an elk with a bow. Mind you, I’ve never hunted in my life. But I feel like if I’m ever going to hunt, it’s going to be with a bow. I just feel like a bow requires more skill.
Jake Arrieta
I remember that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to fix Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer sold. So you were training people on a skill that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn’t received any new equipment in 20 years.
James Heckman
The majority of us spend anywhere from three to ten hours – or more – being active and working out every week. Why not develop a skill and get better at something while you are getting the best full-body workout?
Anna Kaiser
Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
Edward Dmytryk
I always have believed in the value of the diversity and resilience and just, really, the different skill sets that our community has. But we’ve never been able to find the right platform and find the right environment for us as a community – for us as a professional community.
Angelica Ross
It’s always fun when you pick up a skill for a particular character.
Shriya Pilgaonkar
It is difficult to master the skill of scoring runs from a 90mph delivery that is dug into your armpit or is fizzing past your nose.
Jonathan Agnew
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
Sugata Mitra
Take your time to really learn and study the fundamentals of your pursuit, so that one day, your fully developed skill set will allow you to grow into a leader.
Baron Davis
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Appleton
Your wardrobe should complement your skill set, never detract – or distract – from your assets.
Nina Garcia
Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we’re all faced with everyday. I think that’s a very 21st century skill.
Michael Azerrad
It’s a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession – a thing where your skill defines you as a person – to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
Damien Chazelle
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
Casey Stengel
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
Stephen Covey
I truly find inspiration everywhere. I always tell students, and young people starting out, that the single most important skill, next to listening, is to pay attention. You never know where inspiration will strike.
Nick Wooster
Fans, wrestlers, and even the general public have been conditioned to believe that there’s an enormous skill gap between WWE and everyone else.
Kenny Omega
John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.
Matt Taibbi
People want to see real skill level, real Jiu Jitsu, real boxing, put together and mixed up. They want to see mixed martial arts. They don’t want to see five minutes of holding. I think there should be points deducted when you do that.
Nick Diaz
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Orville Wright
My dad had such a cool job. When you’re a voiceover actor, it’s a whole different skill – you’re bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents.
Ashley Bell
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
Peter Drucker
What I look for in a partner is a skill, a voice of their own so I have a strength to go up against. They definitely have to be able to get out of their own way. I can’t take somebody being precious about their work.
Alan Menken
I think to get first in your division you’ve got to have a lot of depth, a lot of character, a lot of skill, a lot of competitiveness.
Joe Thornton
It’s nice when I get offered small parts. But I really think that ‘SNL’ is what my skill set is best designed for.
Seth Meyers
I feel that for a lot of my career, I had success, I was adored, but I was also this alien creature. I want to show that I have the skill like any other female model, and I’m asking for the same equal treatment and equal respect as any other female model.
Andreja Pejic
I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.
Ron Perlman
A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren’t ‘plug-and-play.’ The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.
Howard Rheingold
I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn’t the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.
Steve Coogan
Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.
Michael Moschen
Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.
George Vecsey
Getting recognized for my skill is very important to me. ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’ gave me that.
Sobhita Dhulipala
Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.
Tony Buzan
Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn’t work more differently, and yet they made ‘Midnight Run,’ which is a genius comedy.
John Carroll Lynch
Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.
John Bytheway
Me, in all aspects of my life, I’m thinking about how can I maximize my skill set and who I am as a person. That’s part of my job in becoming a better receiver.
Kenny Stills
Later in life, when my kids struggle to understand a tricky concept or master a new skill, I want them to have the strength and experience to tell themselves, ‘I don’t know how to do this… yet!’ I want them to be confident that, even if something seems challenging today, they have what it takes to figure it out.
Sal Khan