Skills Quotes - Page 33

• As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

  Idina Menzel

  Done, Realizing

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• As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Hype, Acting, Film

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

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• Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

  Michael Palin

  Analysis, World, Geography

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• It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Real, Able

  "Don't get personal..." by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2005.

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• There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

  Colin Mochrie

  Years, Lucky, Sat

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

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• The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

  Michael Korda

  Past, Accomplishment, Records

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• A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

  Carl Reiner

  Thinking, Way, Bones

  "Reiner's Roar". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. October 26, 2004.

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• Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

  Wesley Snipes

  Art, Humanity, Use

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• I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

  Helen Reddy

  Couple, Week, Type

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• Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Giving, Imagination

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• I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.

  Jason Ritter

  Art, Special, Pockets

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• I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

  Joan Cusack

  Kids, Parenting, Emotional

  "Rt Interview: Joan Cusack On War, Inc., The Unofficial Sequel To Grosse Point Blank". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. May 22, 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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• Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability enables Walter to communicate with aspiring musicians in a way that removes the sense of mystery that sometimes enshrouds our profession.

  Branford Marsalis

  Successful, Understanding, Musical

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• The best experience for me at CMU was being on stage so much, getting that comfort ability and learning that technique you can use with any type of work because you’re comfortable with it and know your skill as an actor.

  Matt Bomer

  Technique, Comfort, Best Experiences

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

  Joel Edgerton

  Jobs, Extras, Bits

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

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

  Luke Jermay

  Mind, Use, Props

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