Quotes About Skills

He argued that science is social in its very essence in the ways in which skills, standards, and tacit understandings are transmitted from person to person in an institutional system in which members act freely but work within mutual consensus.

Teachers are asked to do so much, and they can't be good at every single thing.

Nobody's going to be able to do every single thing better than everybody. Not even LeBron does everything better than everybody else. It's all about using your advantages.

You have some singles that play doubles, but you have doubles players that can beat singles players when they're playing doubles.

My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.

I remember being a kid and trying to do make-up and being so bad at it - but my sister Kylie was so good. It came so naturally to her. For me, it was never natural.

Randomly enough, my older sisters went to a makeup school when they were younger, so they're all really good at it. They've always told me that 'natural is better.'

The work I've been putting in, I've kind of just been preparing myself for every situation. I've been doing a lot of off-the-ball shooting, catch-and-shoot shots. And preparing myself to play on the ball as well.

Something people wouldn't expect me to do is I play this computer game called 'Runescape.' I've played 'Runescape' since forever. Since I was, like, six. It is still one of my favourite games ever.

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

One of the best things to me about 'Skate' is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.

You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.

I have no skills! I can't speak French, I can't ski, I can't play the guitar... I can barely log on to the Internet! All I know how to do is write novels (thank goodness) and run, and anyone who has seen me run knows I'm not very good at that, either.

A country without engineering skill and knowledge will never become a developed country.

We do send regular e-mail alerts to EI claimants to inform them of jobs available in their skill set, in their communities, so they are aware that these jobs exist and it's just a matter of the employers hiring them.

To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.

One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?' Most people don't, and say they are different sizes, but it's 4' x 8'. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it's an important skill to have.

There is no more important foundational skill than reading.

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.

There are over 50 brilliant scientists working at my lab, and being sensitive to their needs is among the top skill sets that scientists like me have to learn.

The people I don't like to work with are people like me. I need people who can complement my skill set, people who can do the nitty gritty with me.