Quotes About Skills

There's a lot of bad habits a lot of guys have now in the NBA and in college, so there's only one way to get them started right and that's to go back to the roots.

The only time I would shoot from the outside was in practice, and then it was only when we were shooting for milkshakes. And as far as ball handling goes, I always said that when I dribbled, it was two bounces and a kick.

I'd always loved technology. It's something I always messed around with in computer labs at school. So I glommed onto it very early as way to differentiate myself in business.

My mom is an OK cook. She'll skewer me for saying that openly, because she claims to be a very good cook. She can make about, I don't know, 10 dishes, I think, which is four dishes more than I can make.

When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it's the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work.

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

The lack of diversity is harmful to the vitality of a healthy team ecosystem—the climate needed to engender creativity and insight. For it is the diversity of experiences, perspectives, and skills that introduces increased quantities of creative solutions.

Trust is the essential quality in any team relationship. Team members will not work interdependently with anyone they do not trust. And without interdependence there can be no effective division of the task, no leverage of the gifts and skills of individual team members, and therefore, no synergy. No trust, no relationship, no team.

Successful people are those who have learned how to learn. Whether college-educated or self-educated, successful people depend on themselves, not others, for their own knowledge, skills, and wisdom. People who are committed to life-long learning have everything they need to shape their own.

If the good news from cyberspace is that we're writing more, the bad news is that most of us aren't very good at it. Our words don't do justice to our ideas.

even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 percent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering—to personality and the ability to lead people.

En la plenitud de su actividad, John D. Rockefeller dijo que "la habilidad para tratar con la gente es un artículo que se puede comprar, como el azúcar o el café". "Y pagaré más por esa capacidad —agregó— que por cualquier otra.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident

15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering

personality and the ability to talk are more important than a knowledge of Latin verbs or a sheepskin from Harvard.

One can, for example, hire mere technical ability in engineering, accountancy, architecture or any other profession at nominal salaries. But the person who has technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people – that person is headed for higher earning power.

the person who has technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership and to arouse enthusiasm among people—that person is headed for higher earning power.

Schwab says that he was paid this salary largely because of his ability to deal with people.

These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering – to personality and the ability to lead people.

Pero el hombre que dispone de conocimientos técnicos más la habilidad de expresar sus ideas, para asumir la dirección, y para despertar entusiasmo entre los demás, esa persona tiene posibilidades de aumentar indefinidamente sus ingresos.