Quotes About Skills

Passing the basketball - I feel like I've gotten better with that.

When young people develop basic leadership and collaborative learning skills, they can be a formidable force for change.

You need to play to your strengths as a couple. Sharing is really awesome when you're messing around with Play-Doh in kindergarten. It's less awesome when you're adults and one of you is good at something and the other person sucks at it. So just let the more skilled person take the reins.

Seibel: When you're hiring programmers, how do you recognize the good ones? Crockford: The approach I've taken now is to do a code reading. I invite the candidate to bring in a piece of code he's really proud of and walk us through it.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

That's going to take a box of tools you neither own nor know how to use.

There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

Reading to babies creates such a special parent-child bond and so strongly influences a child's language skills that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that doctors and nurses routinely discuss it with parents during pediatric visits.

I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.

I'm a visual learner, so with hand-eye coordination, I was a natural.

The more you have in your toolbox, if you can visualize or have a moment to provide you a visual, as an actor, that's paramount.

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

The bikini scenes in 'Billa' were vital because they showed me as a seductress. I'd like to say here that outfits define a character and help an actor, say, 30 per cent, the rest depends on one's histrionic skills.

We all know that reading is an invaluable life skill. It is vital for children in their education and as they take their place in the grown-up world.

Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.

I don't question the importance of learning how to cook at school. It's vital that children know how to create a few dishes to sustain themselves in later life, but that's different from the emotional, nurturing environment of the home kitchen with Mum.

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

I would like to learn so many things: I'd like to take tennis classes, I'd like continuing vocal lessons, and I'd definitely like taking more ice skating and more tap.

Call centres employ mainly out-of-work actors because vocal skills plus low self-esteem equals reliable cold caller.

I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

When I was a teenager in Accomack County, the class I most enjoyed was a vocational skills course on small engine repair.

We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.