Skills Quotes - Page 31

• Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Giving, Imagination

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• What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Thinking, Empathy

  "Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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  Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Winning, Self, Overcoming

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.

  Tony Hawk

  People, Giving, Skating

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• Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

  Alan Turing

  Book, Practice, Example

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• 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.

  George Lucas

  Motivational, Psychology, Secret

  "the force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

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• I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

  Viswanathan Anand

  School, Chess, Firsts

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• Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Cities, Divinity, Fields

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• At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things far beyond our expectations? We are talking about tools and carpentry, about words and style... but as we move along, you'd do well to remember that we are also talking about magic.

  Stephen King

  Moving, Writing, Talking

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Intelligence

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• Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

  Anne Perry

  Anchors, People, Welcome

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• Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

  Seth Godin

  Born

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.47, Penguin

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• The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

  Mark Twain

  Engineering, Rivers, Way

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• It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.

  Quincy Jones

  Art, Math, Thinking

  "Arts Education in America" by Quincy Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2009.

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• Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.

  Alvin Toffler

  Running, Emotional, Data

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• What is the one bright spot on the entire horizon that would give someone an opportunity to be retrained to learn new skills? Direct selling.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Direct Selling, Giving

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• If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

  Walter Bonatti

  Climbing, Normal, Spirit

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• The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving.

  Katie Noonan

  Art, People, Dancer

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• The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, One Direction, Tools

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.283, University of Georgia Press

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• I am confident there is a cause for everyone. Think of how you can contribute; we all have different skills.

  Simon McKeon

  Thinking, Community, Causes

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• Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.

  Martin Luther

  Night, Men, People

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Travel, Home, Breakfast

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Sometimes, Surprise

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• There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

  Winston Churchill

  Kings, Oratory, Turns

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• Skills rest in your mind not in the props you make use of.

  Luke Jermay

  Mind, Use, Props

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