1,149 Quotes About Skills

You have a white guy as an announcer and sportscaster. Me, I'm black. I do it and I've already done some stuff in the past. We're more expressive than the white guys. You look at the skill players. We're the ones that get into the end zone. We get in the end zone more than they do.

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.

I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.

Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop. If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.