New Skills Quotes

• I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Skills, Challenges, Challenge Yourself

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.

  Peter Drucker

  Skills, Important, Century

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• All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Education, Moving

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• Continue to study and learn new skills.

  Edie McClurg

  Skills, Study

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• Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

  Annie Wersching

  Opportunity, Skills, New Experiences

  "Actor Annie Wersching: Losing her mom and the curative powers of a good night's sleep". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist.

  Rachele Brooke Smith

  Adventure, Artist, Skills

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• It's fun making new skills for new characters.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Fun, Character, Skills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

  Michael Merzenich

  Skills, Connections, Millions

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• Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.

  Philippa Perry

  Order, Skills, Creative

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

  Angela Merkel

  Education, High Heels, Skills

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because novelty and challenge also bring frustration and irritation - but if you can push through that, novelty and challenge can bring enormous happiness rewards.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Frustration, Irritation, Skills

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

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• The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

  Bruce Barton

  Business, Teaching, Skills

  "Making Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Work: A Capacity Development Toolkit". Book by Marelize Görgens-Albino and Jody Zall Kusek, p. 347, 2009.

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• As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways of thinking, always questioning their understanding of the world. Going back to old ways, old technology is forbidden. There in no past, no present, only an endless future of inadequacy

  Richard Kadrey

  Past, Technology, Thinking

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• Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

  Liz Phair

  Skills, Giving, Essentials

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• Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

  Joel Edgerton

  Jobs, Skills, Extras

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Skills, Needs, Territory

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• 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.

  Jeff Bezos

  Skills, Two, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.

  Tom Peters

  Skills, Careers, Gains

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• The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

  Tony Buzan

  Children, Self, Skills

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• If you work on a new product launch, spent time in a new geography, or work to develop a completely new skill, you have no choice but to figure out new ways to solve problems.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Skills, Choices, Way

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.

  Leslie T. Chang

  Motivation, Inspiration, Home

  "The voices of China's workers". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.

  Bill Shuster

  Country, Jobs, Skills

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• As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.

  Betty Edwards

  Thinking, Skills, Drawing

  Betty Edwards (1989). “Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence”, Jeremy P. Tarcher

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• I'm magnetic," she whispered, half awed and half horrified. "I hope you don't start sticking to fridges and stuff," I said in disbelief. Fang dropped down next to me, and the Gasman joined us, squishing in next to Nudge. "What's going on?" Fang asked. "I'm Magnet Girl!" Nudge said, already coming to terms with her new skill.

  James Patterson

  Girl, Skills, Half

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• I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

  John C. Reilly

  Skills, Challenges, Trying

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