Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain’s success. – Charles Kennedy
I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know. – Ben Shahn
I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you’ve never made a film, you’re not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills. – Anton Corbijn
Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn’t feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts… and now we are, so we’re out there, just like the guys. – Chantal Kreviazuk
Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills – and their delight in using them – develop earlier than boys’. – Brenda Laurel
What do you remember about Jason Robinson? His feet. Not how improved he was under a high ball or his kicking skills. Everyone remembers those feet. He could go round you in a phone box. – Brian O’Driscoll
Better degrees don’t automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives. – Andreas Schleicher
VCE exams do not showcase students’ abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam. – Alexandra Adornetto
I love to see how far you’re able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself. – Alicia Vikander
My decorating and renovation skills are nil – indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as ‘window dressing.’ – Candace Bushnell
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. – Arianna Huffington
So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills. – Craig Johnston
France needs to improve training and education and the level of skills of its workforce. – Francois Hollande
Whatever I won in cycling, I won with my own skills. I never won anything I couldn’t win. For example, I never won a time trial at 60 kph, whereas others have and maybe still do. – Danilo Di Luca
I’m just curious, who’s more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent? – Ellen Barkin
While we are deploying troops in their thousands, we lose the chance to build up their basic skills. – Des Browne
I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps. – Frederick W. Smith
I don’t want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled. – Misty May-Treanor
The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don’t have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won’t be able to do. – Marcus du Sautoy
Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills. – Gillian Armstrong
When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn’t have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies. – Frank Gehry
