skill quotes

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it’s a way to make a living.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

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.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

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.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

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.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.