The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
Self-expression, to me, is something that you worked on, that you have mastered a skill to say something in the most artful way that you can. It's not just blurting stuff out and having verbal diarrhea.
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still
Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways.
The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.
Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
Pretending is a very valuable life skill.
Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.
Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.
Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.
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.
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.
But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their value from the matter they are made of, and the excellent skill of their maker: Pots of common clay must not contend with China-dishes, nor pewter utensils vye dignity with those of silver. . . . Woman was not composed of any inanimate or vile dirt, but of a more refined and purified substance, enlivened and actuated by a Rational Soul, whose operations speak it a beam, or bright ray of Divinity.
Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.