Skill is a function of chance. It's an intuitive best-use of chance situations. Votes: 3
Philip K. DickSkill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. Votes: 3
John RuskinSkill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets Votes: 3
Tom PetersSkill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation. Votes: 3
Jack KornfieldSkill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. Votes: 3
Arthur Conan DoyleWisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it. Votes: 3
David Starr JordanIf the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. Votes: 2
James A. GarfieldMy father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill. Votes: 2
Cam NewtonA weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. Votes: 2
Doug LarsonFairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. Votes: 1
Brit HumeThe highest skill is the true judgment of values. Votes: 0
Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-LiancourtThere is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. Votes: 0
Daniel GolemanIgnorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauLearning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections. Votes: 0
Michael MerzenichTechnical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity. Votes: 0
Christopher ZeemanDocumentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill. Votes: 0
Jim HighsmithNobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice. Votes: 0
Norman Vincent Peale...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill. Votes: 0
Lloyd AlexanderAdmirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. Votes: 0
William CowperThe Nordstrom corollary to that philosophy is hire the smile, train the skill. Votes: 0
Robert SpectorKeeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity! Votes: 0
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarThe devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity. Votes: 0
George EliotGeorge Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy. Votes: 0
Brad ShermanBoxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent. Votes: 0
Lennox LewisThe illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. Votes: 0
John MurphyDon't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself. Votes: 0
Carl IcahnEmpathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work. Votes: 0
Daniel GolemanLeft untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly. Votes: 0
David MaisterYesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill. Votes: 0
Antero AlliAmbidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceWithout patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted. Votes: 0
Orhan PamukGetting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom. Votes: 0
J. Paul GettyListening is a tough skill, but one who practice it becomes The Successful Leader!!! Votes: 0
Santosh Adbhut KumarA special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one. Votes: 0
Evan EsarProgramming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. Votes: 0
Alan TuringOur mission is skill development. There can be no development with a satiated system. Votes: 0
Narendra ModiDuets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players. Votes: 0
Daisy GoodwinReadiness is a studentâs entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill. Votes: 0
Carol Ann TomlinsonTo develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable. Votes: 0
Edward de BonoMoney is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. Votes: 0
Leland StanfordPreferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop. Votes: 0
Joel FuhrmanBoth individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure. Votes: 0
Benjamin GrahamNo skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithIt takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army. Votes: 0
Ninon de L'EnclosWhen I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. Votes: 0
Steven SpielbergIf I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantArt is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making. Votes: 0
Stephen MetcalfThe skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. Votes: 0
Edwin SchlossbergCommerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonCreating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both. Votes: 0
Michael JosephsonThe devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity. Votes: 0
George EliotIntelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned. Votes: 0
Edward de BonoKnowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. Votes: 0
Thomas SzaszThe more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth. Votes: 0
Narendra Modidoubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct Votes: 0
Kathryn SchulzWhen workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWe need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment. Votes: 0
Narendra ModiLearning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. Votes: 0
Sugata Mitramany writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill. Votes: 0
Judy DeltonI love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill. Votes: 0
Erin HeathertonCourtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning. Votes: 0
Isaac AsimovObama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern. Votes: 0
Edward KleinBook marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful. Votes: 0
Heather HartStrong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill. Votes: 0
Julie B. BeckBad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action. Votes: 0
Malcolm GladwellInterest refers to studentâs affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill. Votes: 0
Carol Ann TomlinsonArt is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression. Votes: 0
Ai WeiweiThe creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. Votes: 0
Francis BaconIf you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill Votes: 0
Frank LangellaIf you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill. Votes: 0
Frank LangellaMy best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn. Votes: 0
Michael JordanCommon sense is a skill to learn, and it is the foundation of all good business. Votes: 0
Ehab AtallaWhat is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerI like things that involve skill and I love anything that's a bit of a challenge Votes: 0
Harry StylesA batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England Votes: 0
Tony GreigThere's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill. Votes: 0
Fred ThompsonIn good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukSelling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion. Votes: 0
Jeffrey GitomerA wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeIf I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill and concentration. Votes: 0
David MitchellDoesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right. Votes: 0
Mark CubanDraw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes. Votes: 0
Gene BlackManagement of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge. Votes: 0
W. Edwards DemingPicasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. Votes: 0
David HockneyLearning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1. Votes: 0
David A. HeenanThe most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn. Votes: 0
Robin HoyleDo not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come. Votes: 0
Randall Dale AdamsThere's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks. Votes: 0
Mabel SeeleyTraining is a universal right. It's not just targeted at those with the worst skill levels. Votes: 0
Jeff DenhamTo shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing. Votes: 0
Bernhard GoetzMitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require. Votes: 0
Artur DavisA bullfighter must have courage, skill, and grace. And of these courage is the most important. Votes: 0
Maia WojciechowskaYour wardrobe should complement your skill set, never detract - or distract - from your assets. Votes: 0
Nina Garcia[First line] "The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous. Votes: 0
Nora RobertsThe improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partnerâs imagination. Votes: 0
Keith JohnstoneIt is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul. Votes: 0
P. G. WodehouseI never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill. Votes: 0
Samuel L. JacksonThere is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillThe ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. Votes: 0
Todd SolondzI'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill. Votes: 0
Chelsea ClintonI love teaching people how to handle their money and I've built a brand on that skill. Votes: 0
Michelle SingletaryMoney is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonA fighter with heart will almost always win out against a fighter with skill but no will. Votes: 0
Chuck LiddellI have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children. Votes: 0
Carolyn Hax...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. Votes: 0
MoliereWinning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field. Votes: 0
Sun TzuWhen it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior. Votes: 0
Alan Mullery... reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy? Votes: 0
Brandon SandersonPoets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeDrawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. Votes: 0
Adam GopnikThose of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill. Votes: 0
Audre LordeCaptaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent. Votes: 0
Richie BenaudYour ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop. Votes: 0
Brian TracyCasting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. Votes: 0
Steven SpielbergJust a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. Votes: 0
Charlie FowlerThe evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich. Votes: 0
Daniel KahnemanPatience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. Votes: 0
Gail SimmonsNo amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth. Votes: 0
Ellen TerryHe is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will. Votes: 0
Samuel TukeI just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. Votes: 0
Garry TrudeauTools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user. Votes: 0
Leonard J. V. CompagnoWe look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill. Votes: 0
James WhistlerWere all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. Votes: 0
Sugar Ray LeonardWe're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. Votes: 0
Sugar Ray LeonardA wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,' Votes: 0
Michael StipeYou've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out. Votes: 0
Billy Joe SaundersIt often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader. Votes: 0
AristophanesThe way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits. Votes: 0
Joshua FoerNo skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read. Votes: 0
Bob RileyThere are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianChampions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. Votes: 0
Muhammad AliI became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. Votes: 0
Jock SturgesA skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do. Votes: 0
Jim LehrerYour ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work. Votes: 0
Brian TracyHabit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). Votes: 0
Stephen CoveyHabit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). Votes: 0
Stephen R. CoveyIt's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill. Votes: 0
Kevin BaconThe most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin. Votes: 0
Jim RogersNever mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world. Votes: 0
Maeve BinchyNo amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry. Votes: 0
Scott KahnYour ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success. Votes: 0
Brian TracyI had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer. Votes: 0
Mindy KalingIt is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianI think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. Votes: 0
Guy KawasakiThe test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch. Votes: 0
Joe DiMaggioInventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent. Votes: 0
Ray DolbyGuiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will. Votes: 0
Dar WilliamsWhen you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. Votes: 0
Theodore SturgeonThen I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill. Votes: 0
Ron SilverIt's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set. Votes: 0
Benedict CumberbatchThe real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by. Votes: 0
Thomas BerryThe fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup. Votes: 0
Lorrie FairIt's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take. Votes: 0
Martin BrodeurIf you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine. Votes: 0
Debi ThomasIf you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall. Votes: 0
Chuck BlackWhy do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort? Votes: 0
EuripidesI am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me. Votes: 0
Georgia O'KeeffeAny fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettA shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill. Votes: 0
Ben HoganThe ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills. Votes: 3 Gerald Chertavian
I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career. Votes: 1 Darren Flutie
There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt. Votes: 3 Arne Jacobsen
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly. Votes: 3 Alison Gopnik
Honor your relationships by developing listening skills. Votes: 3 Allan Lokos
When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient. Votes: 3 Robert Greene
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. Votes: 3 Edward Appleton
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. Votes: 3 Franklin P. Jones
In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before. Votes: 3 Marco Rubio
Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy. Votes: 4 James H. Douglas, Jr.
So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill. Votes: 1 Chris LeDoux
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. Votes: 5 Steven Spielberg
Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry. Votes: 3 Megan Smith
Our mission is skill development. There can be no development with a satiated system. Votes: 4 Narendra Modi
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes. Votes: 1 Peggy Fleming
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. Votes: 4 Garry Trudeau
Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills. Votes: 1 Joseph Gordon-Levitt
When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period. Votes: 3 Martin Evans
I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people. Votes: 4 Joe Morgan
In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding. Votes: 5 Daniel Goleman
A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond. Votes: 3 Robert Jenkins
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result. Votes: 3 Sadaharu Oh