Quotes About Skillful

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skillful enough at it all, we'll see.

It's a lot easier to negotiate and be skillful from the majority. I want Paul Ryan negotiating with us. I don't want to have to negotiate with Paul Ryan.

The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back.

I know I'm skillful and capable of finishing fights.

I've got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC.

What do you remember about Jason Robinson? His feet. Not how improved he was under a high ball or his kicking skills. Everyone remembers those feet. He could go round you in a phone box.

I always love watching those natural actors like Bill Cosby, Raven-Symone and Shia LaBeouf - just effortless actors.

I'm pretty good with a screwdriver. I don't mean the drink, though actually, now I come to think of it…

Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, trainer, soothsayer, rope-dancer, physician, magician—he knows everything. Tell the hungry little Greek to go to heaven; he'll go.

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

Neymar is growing and is one of those players who invent things. He always has something more to offer.

To a large extent, equity investors put their hard-earned capital into the hands of management and count on it being employed skilfully and honestly. When that doesn't happen, losses typically follow.

For the record, Jeff Jarret cannot play guitar. Honky Tonk Man cannot play guitar. Elias? Guitar, piano, harmonica, drums, you name it. I can do anything.

Troublemaking is just about the only thing I'm good at

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

A prize-winning science reporter, Simons had become the number-two editor at the Post a year before. An intent, sensitive man with a large nose, thin face and deep-set eyes, he looks like the kind of Harvard teaching assistant who carries a slide ruler strapped to his belt. But he is skillful with fragile egos, and also the perfect counterpoint to Bradlee. Bradlee is more like Woodward: he wants hard information first and is impatient with theories. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

The problem is not one of being wrong or right, but one of being more or less skillful.

Kung-an [koans] were in vogue during the Tang Dynasty. Each Zen practitioner had a kung-an to work on. But before this period, Zen Masters did not need kung-an. The kung-an is, therefore, not something absolutely indispensable to the practice of Zen. It is, more or less, a skillful means created by Zen Masters in order to help people who work under their direction.

Jon Voight is a consummate American actor.

That's the beauty of being an actor. You're kind of a journeyman.

I'm a really good juggler.

People have always thought of me as a passer of the ball, but you can't just be that these days.

Kenny Bates is a legend.