You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up. " "That last one isn't a skill. " "Honey, trust me. It's a skill.
You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
I don't think my skill level is up there as a musician. I think I'm best at writing in general. The musicians that I know are really good, and I feel like I have a lot to do until I become a musician.
. . . where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
A curious mind armed with skill, experience, knowledge, and patterns can give birth to big brand revolution.
Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.
Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.
Some artists approach their 'why?' intuitively, and work toward giving it a voice through their technical skill. Others begin as technicians, and develop, or discover, their 'why?' as they become stronger communicators.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy. ]
The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.
For me, the hardest part is getting up and writing, that's the hard part. I always felt like I could teach someone to direct if I really had to. I feel like it's a skill that's passable, but writing. . . writing is the worst. That's what I'm doing right now, it's just the hardest thing that you'll ever do.
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
Force has no place where there is need of skill
Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.