#skill

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #skill




Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.


Jan Mckingley Hilado


#personal-development #self-education #self-improvement #skills #value

Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.


James Boswell


#equality #fear #gender #intelligence #men

I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience.


Oliver Neubert


#fantasy #first-love #flying #life-skills #middle-grade

Start even if you don't know how.


Wendy Tremayne


#new-experiences #self-improvement #skill-learning #experience

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.


Ray Bradbury


#quality #skill #writers #writing #imagination

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#academia #academic-degrees #achievements #clichés #double-standards

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you." He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew he could never explain exactly why the idea came to him. "It's the painting of a dutiful daughter," he said eventually, looking at her cautiously to see her reaction. "You want to please. You are always aware of what the person looking at this picture will think of it. Because of that you've missed something important. Does that make sense?" She thought, then nodded. "All right," she said grudgingly and with just a touch of despair in her voice. "You win." Julien grunted. "Have another go, then. I shall come back and come back until you figure it out." "And you'll know?" "You'll know. I will merely get the benefit of it.


Iain Pears


#creativity #daughters #duty #expectation #fulfillment

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.


Jennifer Donnelly


#skill #writing #music

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.


Mahatma Gandhi


#capability #confidence #optimism #possibility #skills

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.


Michael S. Miller


#selling #selling-skills #business