#skill

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed. ↗

— Anita Desai

#day #effort #every #every day #honed

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#against #chances #education #else #equipment

There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#budget #constraints #deadlines #directing #doubt

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#building #developed #diet #different #eventually

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain. ↗

— Shaun White

#brain #games #i #interactive #learned

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head. ↗

— Kip Winger

#head #hone #i #mastery #music

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#career #discrimination #empowerment #equality #jobs

Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#buying-and-selling #conversations #customer-service #customers #enterprise

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#habit #knowledge #skill #change