Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can’t figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it. – Erik Brynjolfsson
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. – Dave Van Ronk
But you do have to start young as a dancer if you’re going to achieve the physical skills necessary. – Deborah Bull
I’m an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar. – Patti Smith
When you’re shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills. – Gillian Jacobs
I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning. – Edwin Moses
Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy – a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one’s own emotions and the emotions of others. – Daniel Goleman
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
I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there – I was an associate producer for a little bit. – Manish Dayal
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills. – Daley Thompson
Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it’s the same skills. – Mohamed ElBaradei
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills – not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don’t get to use again. – Penn Jillette
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers. – Gary Wolf
Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards. – Ferdinand Marcos
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. – Douglas Hurd
Businesses that fail to develop their staff are twice as likely to collapse. Firms seeking to reposition themselves for the economic upturn need to invest in their staff’s flexibility, responsiveness and skills. – David Blunkett
I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing. – David Byrne
I certainly did work at an amusement park. In 1985. Wow – I’m in denial about the year. I was in college, and I had no skills. – Greg Mottola
Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution. – Marvin Bower
I came into the industry as an actor. And moved on to become a star with the help of my dancing skills. – Mithun Chakraborty
I’m trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities. – Martha Wainwright
Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy. – James H. Douglas, Jr.