Quotes by Skills My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown. Jodi Picoult skillsjobsschool It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process? John Irving skillssufferingpeople No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tricksskillsart No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus. John C. Maxwell greatnessfocusskills Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form. John Maeda confuseddesignskills A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the John Maeda piecesskillsbook You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact. John McKinley impactskillswant The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. John Maynard Keynes skillsignorancedark Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. John Milius skillswritingpeople Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language. John Milius skillswritingdrama Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about the rote memorization of facts. That's a discipline issue. You need the rote skill in order to have something to improvise off of, otherwise you are simply playing air guitar. John Medina air-guitarskillsorder The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. John Murphy illusionskillsreading We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win. John F. Kennedy skillsmoonwinning Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match. John Motson ableskillsfootball We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection. John Locke skillsexercisegiving The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. John Naisbitt constantly-learningskillsimportant For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need. John Milton freedomskillsmen Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity. John Oates skillsgoneopportunity Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment. John Mayer single-momskillsworry The individual skill of the player determines the outcome, unlike betting on the horses or betting on the lottery. It's not an individual betting against the house and that's an important distinction. John Pappas horseskillsplayer«5253545556575859606162»
