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Quotes About Skill

Don't get me wrong, Anthony Joshua is Anthony Joshua, but he's not as skillful and as talented as me, you know? I'm just speaking facts.
~ Demetrius Andrade
Good knife skills are lessons you learn over time.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything.
~ Brian O'Driscoll
My skills are musical, not lyrical.
~ Brian Wilson
We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.
~ John Updike
Action is just one of my skills.
~ Hiroyuki Sanada
A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
~ Carl Reiner
At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.
~ Parminder Nagra
My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
~ Anthony Doerr
When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!
~ Zooey Deschanel
It's true that the skills required to be a conman are the same as those required for being an actor. Though those skills are in the service of something a bit more noble with acting, I hope.
~ John C. Reilly
Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.
~ Joel Fuhrman
I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.
~ Patti Smith
There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.
~ Jason Moran
I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)
~ Sandra Brown, The Alibi
I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.
~ Andy Roddick
Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I really love being a character actor.
~ Missi Pyle
I enjoy doing physical comedy. I'd love, you know, them to throw me some shtick that way. I'd love to do that, if they need physical comedy, if they'd let me display my wares that way.
~ Scott Adsit
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
~ Yann Martel
I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.
~ Gwen Stefani
Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.
~ Jessica Maxwell
Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.
~ John Fahey
I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing.
~ Julia Child