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Skills Quotes

‘Divergent,’ directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth’s dystopia – six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants’ skills.

– Richard Corliss

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.

– Robert Jenkins

On ‘Idol,’ Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

– Rob Sheffield

You have to be a strong advocate of the shows you believe in. Sometimes those skills are very similar to agenting.

– Sue Naegle

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

– Siobhan Davies

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I’m working at it.

– Steve Martin

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.

– Tom Peters

My survival skills are very good for Hollywood. Beyond that, I’m not really sure.

– Timothy Olyphant

My approach to ‘Eastenders’ is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

– Steve McFadden

A startup is not just about the idea: it’s about testing and then implementing the idea. A founding team without these skills is likely dead on arrival.

– Steve Blank

I really feel like knife skills – not just in the kitchen, but in life – are really critical.

– Timothy Ferriss

I’ve got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, ’cause in case of a crazy catastrophe, I might have to learn how to swim.

– Theophilus London

Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton.

– Tina Brown

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

– Tori Spelling

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

– Timothy Ferriss

There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.

– Viswanathan Anand

Just having hope ain’t going to cut it. You’ve got to have hope, passion and skills.

– Tim Reid

Where we are really well positioned is that we can bring skills to the party. We can fix factories, we can fix operations, and we have a good geographical presence.

– Stephen Saad

Exceptional employees don’t possess God-given personality traits; they rely on simple, everyday EQ skills that anyone can incorporate into their repertoire.

– Travis Bradberry

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.

– Sadaharu Oh

I’m not going to get into the writer’s skills or what he was trying to portray because that’s not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

– Taylor Dane

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

– Steven Pressfield

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language – as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

– Warwick Davis

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren’t the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

– Stephen Lang

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

– Terri Windling

We all have skills, I guess.

– Simone Biles

If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.

– Sushant Singh Rajput

Every person – with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness – can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.

– Shari Arison

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

– Troy Vincent

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