I think on a stage in front of thousands of people is a wildly invigorating and amazing experience, and it requires a certain skill set; then being in the studio, and being curled up in the fetal position under the piano, that requires another skill set.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets
I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.
Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.
Skill is less important than awareness.
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.
I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child I wanted to invent a machine that could record my dreams, so I could watch them in the morning; or hire someone to draw the things I had in my head, because I knew I didn't have the skill to do it myself. Theater is that machine. I can make these images come to life and actually walk around inside them for a while.
To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.
Better we raise our skill than lower the climb
The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously.
The reasons I never set out to do a talk show is they're formulaic. People come out, tell jokes and read questions. But that's not what I do, and we built the show around my skill set.
Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.
Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent.
If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England
Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.
I always knew I could hold people's attention and make them laugh every 30 or 40 seconds, and I got approval and attention for that, so the behavior was reinforced. Later, that became an important skill on the street corner.
It's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning; it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system.