Skills Quotes - Page 33

• Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn.

  Josh Linkner

  Creativity, Talent, Born

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2011

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• My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.

  Michael Jordan

  Sponges, Aggressive

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• Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering.
  Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.

  Paul Krugman

  Offering, Complaining, Want

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• There are a lot of guys out there with skills who have not contributed to the evolution of the instrument. It's about more than that...it's an emotive language, an aesthetic. Skill is an aspect, but it's what you do with that skill, or say with that skill, that matters.

  Vinnie Colaiuta

  Guy, Matter, Evolution

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• You must show respect and compassion towards the other musicians, and at the same time try to guide things along. I think this is most important. Obviously, you need the capacity and the skills, but technical skill alone is not enough.

  Vinnie Colaiuta

  Thinking, Compassion, Important

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• Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Gratitude, Hard Work

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• ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.

  Nick Harkaway

  Block, Writing, Creative

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• It's not a diet, it's a way of life that teaches you better skills. For years, I felt like I could never have ice cream, but now I can eat ice cream occasionally!

  Jennifer Hudson

  Ice Cream, Years, Way

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• My culinary skills are terrible. I can't even make toast taste good. I do make scrambled eggs for myself sometimes but I wouldn't even inflict that on anyone else.

  Drew Barrymore

  Eggs, Taste, Sometimes

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• Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

  Carson Kressley

  Television, Humour, International

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• I heard today was the day Kurt passed away 17 years ago. Can’t believe it’s been that long. So grateful for his contribution and inspiration. Not sure I’d be doing this if it weren’t for him. He gave us all permission to create no matter what our skill set and reminded me that dreams are possible. Thanks for that. This made me recall a short piece of film I shot when I heard they were making a film celebrating his life. I made it to explore the character and explore creative possibilities. I never sent it to the studio or to anyone but thought I’d share it now...

  Jared Leto

  Dream, Inspiration, Grateful

  "Jared Leto becomes Kurt Cobain: Touching tribute or horrible blasphemy?" by Kyle Anderson, ew.com. April 6, 2011.

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• There’s something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That’s how Speed is. He’s a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

  Emile Hirsch

  Crush, Heart, Fighting

  "‘Speed Racer’ Puts Emile Hirsch in the Driver's Seat". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.

  Justin Long

  Tired, Character, Thinking

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• You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.

  Howie Mandel

  Home, Comedy, Lots Of Money

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• There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another tax bracket.

  Howie Mandel

  Moving, Rocks, Taxes

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• I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, Parent, Homosexual

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• I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.

  Leona Lewis

  Enjoy, Nature Love, Learning New

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

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• Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Creativity, Talent, Incredibles

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• Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

  Douglas Wilson

  Theatre, Realizing, Designer

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• I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Wish, Looks, Filmmaker

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• Education, especially business education will only give you tools. What you do with these tools is all that matters. Life and business isn’t paint by numbers. You have to think for yourself. You have to invent yourself. You have an inferred fiduciary mandate to yourself, and that means, it’s your responsibility to learn people skills, and language skills, in order to increase your chances of success. You also have to be at the right place, at the right time, with the right thing. Mostly and invariably, the real product you’re going to be selling is….you.

  Gene Simmons

  Real, Mean, Responsibility

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• In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Marketing, Three, Breaking Down

  Michael Ellsberg (2011). “The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful”, p.117, Penguin

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• Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Memories, Organization, Curiosity

  Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name's ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own.

  Judith Barrington

  Fall, Teaching, Writing

  Judith Barrington (2002). “Writing the Memoir”

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• I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.

  Father Damien

  Doctors, Ideas, Giving

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