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Skill Quotes

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven’t got that kind of energy, or skill.

– David Hockney

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it’s a way to make a living.

– David Byrne

Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers’ eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

– Eve Arnold

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

– Nancy Pearcey

Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.

– Naveen Jain

I’m not against gifts that entertain, but I really believe that some of the most valuable gifts that we can give are the things that help us to develop a skill and be entertaining.

– Mike Huckabee

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

– Paracelsus

Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.

– P. J. O’Rourke

We’re not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information – and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

– Nate Silver

As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

– The Bible

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

– Jurgen Klopp

If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

– Joe Morton

Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.

– Lawrence Hargrave

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

– Lorrie Fair

I’m not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all – I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it’s that.

– Jonny Lang

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

– Karl Kraus

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It’s a skill.

– Jonah Lehrer

I graduated with a degree in musical theater and no skill in anything else to make money; I wish I had gotten a massage therapy kit or something where I could have made my own money.

– Kathleen Rose Perkins

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

– Kingman Brewster, Jr.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

– John Shirley

Training is a universal right. It’s not just targeted at those with the worst skill levels.

– Jeff Denham

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

– King Krule

You see a lot of European influence coming in with bigger guys having a larger skill set, shoot the ball, handle the ball, pass the ball. I’m hoping that’ll develop into something I can do.

– Kelly Olynyk

The marginal people on the trading desks, there’s no skill set. If they don’t trade derivatives, I don’t know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.

– James Chanos

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

– Leland Stanford

Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

– Piers Anthony

Here’s my take on Andy Kaufman… For Kaufman, comedy was a skill that was open for examination. He didn’t just do comedy, he deconstructed it like it was a transistor set. He pulled out all the wires and switched them around, often in front of our very eyes.

– Rhys Darby

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don’t. But you can learn how to invent.

– Ray Dolby

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

– Shia LaBeouf

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