1,149 Quotes About Skills

It takes persistent practice to be skilful in the act.

Becoming a linchpin is a stepwise process, a path in which you develop the attributes that make you indispensable. You can train yourself to matter. The first step is the most difficult, the step where you acknowledge that this is a skill, and like all skills, you can (and will) get better at it. Every day, if you focus on the gifts, art, and connections that characterize the linchpin, you'll become a little more indispensable.

it's amazing how many professional possibilities appear when you use value and purpose - rather than skills - as starting point for reinventing your career

The boundaries of your abilities are set by no one else but yourself, ultimately, and it is up to you when they will be pushed.

Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too.

Anything you can do, but the computer can do it better than you. That's not a skill!

You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked; it is skill-learnt!

There’s a fine line between child-like – learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff – and being child-ish.

You can't lead when you have not been loaded with the skills of immagination.