Skill Quotes - Page 3

If you seek success, serve others. If you seek immortality give. Serve or give your time, skills, talent or gift. In the end, what you leave behind are trails of the lives you changed and the hearts you touched.

Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You don't have to boast for work that speaks for itself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told.

What happens when you combine your passion, strength and value? This is the process of creating true art.

J.R. Rim

Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living.

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

The skills of a leader will determine how excellent he will perform. His attitude will determine how often he will do that.

Israelmore Ayivor

Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.

Israelmore Ayivor

Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Develop your skill around your calling

Develop your skill around your calling

If you ever desire to gain the mastery over any skill and talent, then, you must convert as much time as Sebastian Bach converted.

The more you express your skills, the more experienced you become and the closer you get to excellence.

Israelmore Ayivor

Grow your talents and skills through a consistent practice and progressive learning. Learn to relearn and unlearn. Raise the bar for yourself always.

Israelmore Ayivor

Regardless of where you started, there is always the next level. You need to keep leveling up your skills.

Mustafa Saifuddin

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

Ludwig von Mises

We need to apply the rules of 10,000 hours in order to achieve the level of a skill commensurate with the status of a world-class expert

Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Success, Bill Gates said, is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.Same goes for good looking people. Beauty reduces the consciousness that it takes more to catch the heart of the right partner.We often think being good at one thing is all we need to succeed, but hey, success is less of what you are good at, but more of what you are good for.Of what use is beauty with no brains, culture without character, knowledge that does not impact, or skill that does not add value?For any seemingly "good" thing to last, great attention we must pay to the unseen intrinsic component that sustains it.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You may have good skills and better knowledge, but it is your attitude that will bring people closer to you.

Israelmore Ayivor

Human strength plus intelligence cannot unlock the door that God is hiding its key.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Stephen R. Covey

Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something — it creates a talking point.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

Jennifer Donnelly

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it.

Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...

Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.

Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them.

Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes — ah, there's a caseWhere the most careful scrutiny is neededTo tell a voice that's genuinely goodFrom one that's base but merely has succeeded.

loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shapeof a helicopter the same size as the helicopterand that's it's only skilland it isn't good enoughbut it's still amazing.

Tao Lin

Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

A good swordsman is more important than a good sword.

No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.

There is never a guarantee of survival, no matter your strength or skill or wit. There is only the day you are conceived and the day you die, and all else is a series of moments you either embrace or endure.

Rachel L. Schade

I continuously see myself on an airplane that has unlimited fuel. I go here and there but can't stop. Always flying over my destination. I've come to realize I must jump off with my parachute on of course. That is how I'm viewing my life right now.Once I find that loophole than I've reached my destination to success.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.