Skill is a function of chance. It's an intuitive best-use of chance situations. Votes: 3
Philip K. DickSkill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. Votes: 3
John RuskinSkill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets Votes: 3
Tom PetersSkill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation. Votes: 3
Jack KornfieldSkill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. Votes: 3
Arthur Conan DoyleWisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it. Votes: 3
David Starr JordanFairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. Votes: 2
Brit HumeIf the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. Votes: 2
James A. GarfieldMy father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill. Votes: 2
Cam NewtonA weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. Votes: 2
Doug LarsonThe highest skill is the true judgment of values. Votes: 0
Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-LiancourtThere is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. Votes: 0
Daniel GolemanIgnorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauLearning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections. Votes: 0
Michael MerzenichNobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice. Votes: 0
Norman Vincent PealeTechnical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity. Votes: 0
Christopher ZeemanDocumentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill. Votes: 0
Jim Highsmith...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill. Votes: 0
Lloyd AlexanderAdmirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. Votes: 0
William CowperThe Nordstrom corollary to that philosophy is hire the smile, train the skill. Votes: 0
Robert SpectorEmpathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work. Votes: 0
Daniel GolemanDon't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself. Votes: 0
Carl IcahnKeeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity! Votes: 0
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarThe devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity. Votes: 0
George EliotGeorge Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy. Votes: 0
Brad ShermanThe illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. Votes: 0
John MurphyLeft untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly. Votes: 0
David MaisterBoxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent. Votes: 0
Lennox LewisYesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill. Votes: 0
Antero AlliPreferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop. Votes: 0
Joel FuhrmanOur mission is skill development. There can be no development with a satiated system. Votes: 0
Narendra ModiAmbidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceDuets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players. Votes: 0
Daisy GoodwinWithout patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted. Votes: 0
Orhan PamukProgramming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. Votes: 0
Alan TuringA special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one. Votes: 0
Evan EsarListening is a tough skill, but one who practice it becomes The Successful Leader!!! Votes: 0
Santosh Adbhut KumarBoth individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure. Votes: 0
Benjamin GrahamMoney is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. Votes: 0
Leland StanfordTo develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable. Votes: 0
Edward de BonoReadiness is a studentâs entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill. Votes: 0
Carol Ann TomlinsonGetting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom. Votes: 0
J. Paul GettyObama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern. Votes: 0
Edward KleinThe devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity. Votes: 0
George Eliotdoubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct Votes: 0
Kathryn SchulzCourtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning. Votes: 0
Isaac AsimovI love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill. Votes: 0
Erin HeathertonKnowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. Votes: 0
Thomas SzaszNo skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIntelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned. Votes: 0
Edward de BonoBook marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful. Votes: 0
Heather HartThe creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. Votes: 0
Francis BaconCreating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both. Votes: 0
Michael JosephsonWe need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment. Votes: 0
Narendra ModiWhen I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. Votes: 0
Steven SpielbergIf I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantArt is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making. Votes: 0
Stephen MetcalfIt takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army. Votes: 0
Ninon de L'EnclosThe skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. Votes: 0
Edwin SchlossbergCommerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithWhen workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareStrong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill. Votes: 0
Julie B. BeckLearning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. Votes: 0
Sugata Mitramany writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill. Votes: 0
Judy DeltonArt is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression. Votes: 0
Ai WeiweiInterest refers to studentâs affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill. Votes: 0
Carol Ann TomlinsonBad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action. Votes: 0
Malcolm GladwellThe more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth. Votes: 0
Narendra ModiThere's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks. Votes: 0
Mabel SeeleyTraining is a universal right. It's not just targeted at those with the worst skill levels. Votes: 0
Jeff DenhamTo shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing. Votes: 0
Bernhard GoetzMitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require. Votes: 0
Artur DavisA bullfighter must have courage, skill, and grace. And of these courage is the most important. Votes: 0
Maia WojciechowskaYour wardrobe should complement your skill set, never detract - or distract - from your assets. Votes: 0
Nina Garcia[First line] "The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous. Votes: 0
Nora RobertsThe improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partnerâs imagination. Votes: 0
Keith JohnstoneDo not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come. Votes: 0
Randall Dale AdamsDraw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes. Votes: 0
Gene BlackIn good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukMy best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn. Votes: 0
Michael JordanThere's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill. Votes: 0
Fred ThompsonA batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England Votes: 0
Tony GreigA wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeIf I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill and concentration. Votes: 0
David MitchellDoesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right. Votes: 0
Mark CubanIf you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill Votes: 0
Frank LangellaSelling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion. Votes: 0
Jeffrey GitomerI like things that involve skill and I love anything that's a bit of a challenge Votes: 0
Harry StylesManagement of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge. Votes: 0
W. Edwards DemingIf you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill. Votes: 0
Frank LangellaCommon sense is a skill to learn, and it is the foundation of all good business. Votes: 0
Ehab AtallaPicasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. Votes: 0
David HockneyLearning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1. Votes: 0
David A. HeenanWhat is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerThe most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn. Votes: 0
Robin HoyleCaptaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent. Votes: 0
Richie BenaudThe ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. Votes: 0
Todd SolondzYour ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop. Votes: 0
Brian TracyThere is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillI never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill. Votes: 0
Samuel L. JacksonIt is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul. Votes: 0
P. G. WodehouseCasting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. Votes: 0
Steven SpielbergPatience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. Votes: 0
Gail SimmonsJust a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. Votes: 0
Charlie FowlerThe evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich. Votes: 0
Daniel KahnemanThose of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill. Votes: 0
Audre LordeWinning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field. Votes: 0
Sun TzuA fighter with heart will almost always win out against a fighter with skill but no will. Votes: 0
Chuck LiddellI have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children. Votes: 0
Carolyn HaxMoney is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonDrawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. Votes: 0
Adam GopnikI love teaching people how to handle their money and I've built a brand on that skill. Votes: 0
Michelle SingletaryI'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill. Votes: 0
Chelsea Clinton...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. Votes: 0
MolierePoets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeWhen it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior. Votes: 0
Alan Mullery... reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy? Votes: 0
Brandon SandersonWe're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. Votes: 0
Sugar Ray LeonardNo amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth. Votes: 0
Ellen TerryYour ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work. Votes: 0
Brian TracyThe most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin. Votes: 0
Jim RogersHe is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will. Votes: 0
Samuel TukeA wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,' Votes: 0
Michael StipeIt's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill. Votes: 0
Kevin BaconHabit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). Votes: 0
Stephen R. CoveyYou've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out. Votes: 0
Billy Joe SaundersWe look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill. Votes: 0
James WhistlerIt often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader. Votes: 0
AristophanesNever mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world. Votes: 0
Maeve BinchyThe way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits. Votes: 0
Joshua FoerI just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. Votes: 0
Garry TrudeauA skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do. Votes: 0
Jim LehrerI became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. Votes: 0
Jock SturgesChampions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. Votes: 0
Muhammad AliTools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user. Votes: 0
Leonard J. V. CompagnoThere are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianNo skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read. Votes: 0
Bob RileyWere all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. Votes: 0
Sugar Ray LeonardHabit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). Votes: 0
Stephen CoveyYour ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success. Votes: 0
Brian TracyNo amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry. Votes: 0
Scott KahnI think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. Votes: 0
Guy KawasakiThe test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch. Votes: 0
Joe DiMaggioIt is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianIt's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set. Votes: 0
Benedict CumberbatchThen I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill. Votes: 0
Ron SilverWhen you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. Votes: 0
Theodore SturgeonGuiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will. Votes: 0
Dar WilliamsInventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent. Votes: 0
Ray DolbyI had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer. Votes: 0
Mindy KalingThe fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup. Votes: 0
Lorrie FairWhy do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort? Votes: 0
EuripidesIt's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take. Votes: 0
Martin BrodeurIf you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall. Votes: 0
Chuck BlackIf you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine. Votes: 0
Debi ThomasThe real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by. Votes: 0
Thomas BerryAny fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettI am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me. Votes: 0
Georgia O'KeeffeA shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill. Votes: 0
Ben Hogan