1,149 Quotes About Skills

  • Author Howard Staunton
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    To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

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  • Author Ian Somerhalder
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    So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone would get paid to work within their passion and expand in their talents. If you have a skill, a passion, and a love for creating change, the best way to support us is to co-create with us.

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  • Author Jason Statham
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    Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

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  • Author Jerry Saltz
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    The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

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  • Author Jerry Seinfeld
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    There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

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  • Author Jerry Seinfeld
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    That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.

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  • Author Jock Sturges
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    I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

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  • Author Jonathan Swift
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    There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

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