Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.
It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.
My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.
Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.
I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.
If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also. . . I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.
As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract reasoning skill.
It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers only - and perhaps the indifferent ones - that photography can lie.
The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill.
Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.
In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.
'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
The most complicated skill is to be simple.
Every good piece of art. . . involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.
With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.