(1354 quotes found)
“Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year”
Victor Borge
“Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.”
Shinichi Suzuki
“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.”
Brian Tracy
“Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.”
Marilyn vos Savant
“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner”
English Proverb
“God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.”
George MacDonald
“To ask brave soldiers to go into the inferno of Afghanistan and Iraq and by virtue of their skill and courage, under the televised scrutiny of a global audience, end the rule of murderers was not easy. Nor was staying on to help the helpless. Yes, the truly frightening alternative was the blustering inaction that we have seen for the past 20 years that led to September 11 and the real quagmire in the Middle East.”
Victor Davis Hanson
“When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.”
Frank Tyger
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
Tom Stoppard
“The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.”
Robert Heller