1,149 Quotes About Skills

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

Those who have the most skills are the coolest.

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

Working hard is a skill you have to nurture!

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from a working-class background, what I knew of as British literature - the writers who made big prize lists and/or were stocked in WH Smith, Doncaster's only bookshop until I was 17 - seemed incredibly, alienatingly middle-class. Then in 2009, just after the financial crash, I graduated with no more specific skill than 'can analyse a bit of poetry'.

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.