skills quotes

Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

Ability without honor is useless.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.