1,149 Quotes About Skills

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.