#skills

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#competitive #had #i #i always #improving

No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#extent #fit #football #i #keep

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#acting #bonus #get #i #learn

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#certainly #derived #down #i #individual

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#being #benefits #better #between #brain

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#being #capable #communication #communication skills #even

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#also #away #before #causes #crisis

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#arrogant #business #false #german #nothing

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills. ↗

— Troy Vincent

#bit #end #i #i tried #kids

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#body language #costume #exaggerated #language #need