#skills

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#again #get #magic #make #performing

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#boring #developed #ever #every #every night

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#arnold schwarzenegger #austrian #authority #criticised #denounced

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#did #fantastic #figured #had #his

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#charlton #hiding #i #jack #my time

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#book #boring #by the time #developing #finished

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#competing #creating #economy #future #globalization

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#between #career #connection #different #film

I think it now comes down to whether you have the skills or not. ↗

— Jordan Knight

#down #i #i think #now #skills

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#developed #girl #gun #i #i think