“I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.” PeopleKnowsGivingKindIdeasCountryJobsLeadershipSkillsMessagesOptimisticLiftsHopefulLeadership Skills Author:Jeb Bush
“Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.” KnowsHappensWatchesPersonalitySkillsCopiesTraitsPersonality Traits Author:Steve Goodier
“I used to feel this need to prove to people that I can do something dramatic. But, the truth is that I don't know if I can. I don't think I have it in my skill set. It would be great, but I do love making comedies. It's been so much fun for me, and I hope that I can continue to do it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsI CanWould BeUsedFunCan DoComedyTruth IsSkillsProveDramaticCan Do SomethingLove Making Author:Anna Faris
“If there is any one skill that every professional must learn, it is how to brand himself or herself in the marketplace. A brand provides certainty to customers and lets them know that what they`re getting is the best. People don`t like to make decisions. Once we decide, for example, the kind of toothpaste we prefer, rarely do we change. We have to make so many decisions every day in our lives that most of us are overwhelmed.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindDecisionOur LivesExampleSkillsCustomersCertaintyBrandsOverwhelmedMarketplaceToothpaste Author:Tony Robbins
“I feel that I have a certain amount of experience and I'm still learning so much. But a director's job is so vast; they have so much to do with the preparation. You have to be great with all kinds of personalities and you have to be very patient, there's a lot of skills I'm not sure if I have. So I don't know if I'm ready to direct, but who knows what the future has.” IfsKnowsFeelsKindStillsJobsCertainReadyPersonalityAmountDirectorsSkillsDirectPatientAll KindsPreparationNot Sure Author:Jason Statham
“From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.” KnowsMeanTwoFoundWalksResponsibilityKnownForeverFailingSkillsToughSafetyMissionsFlightCompromiseGrantedAviationThis DayCompetentNever Take Anything For Granted Author:Gene Kranz
“I think that there has been a slow recognition that there's a mind at work here, and there's a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don't know that I would've been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T'Aime.” ThinkingKnowsMindHas BeensOpportunityGivenBitsSkillsRecognitionParisHere And ThereArtistry Author:Wes Craven
“We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.” KnowsGivingOpportunityKnow HowSkillsManipulationManipulate Author:Dorothy Height
“What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.” PeopleKnowsNeedsLostSkillsDirectEmptyPaintListsVarietyChairsApartmentClueDoing YouMaestro Author:Tony Gilroy
“I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.” KnowsMadeLanguageSidesPleaseSkillsLawyerEaseClientsFavourTwistsPretenseFeesMake Out Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldLooksMeanGuyStruggleFineSkillsNormalHarderHandsomeRest Of Your LifeRelatableThat GuyUnderdogBrad Author:Jonah Hill
“You know, people like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington. I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government creates jobs. And one of the best things we can do is get the government out of the way, put in reign in all the out of control regulations, put in place and all of the above energy policy, give people the education, the skills that the need to succeed, and lower the tax rate and reform the tax code.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayNeedsGivingGovernmentJobsAmericaEnergyGrowsCan DoEconomyGrowingPolicySucceedSkillsTaxesClintonRateReformCodeBest ThingsRegulationReignEnergy Policy Author:Scott Walker
“All you can do is learn the skills of movies. Neither colleges nor anyone else can teach you creativity. They can teach you abilities to work with - you know how to use the gifts you've been born with.” KnowsUseCan DoBornAbilityTeachCreativityKnow HowCollegeSkills Author:Frank Capra
“I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.” IfsKnowsWorldWantI CanProblemAbleEconomicSkillsIllusionSticksSolveCardsThrowingEconomic ProblemsPuncture Author:Dave Franco
“I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.” KnowsGivingShouldWritingTryingDifferentStoriesUseShowsFeelingsWantedMovingFormCoursesFunChancePerfectNiceMinutesFieldsSkillsGive MePresentingDoing YouShowing OffPlaying FieldsMusic Writing Author:Eric Idle
“When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.” KnowsPresidentTalkingLike YouSkills Author:William J. Clinton
“When you step out on the court, I don't think anybody thinks about age. Because if you're out on this tour it means you deserve to be here. You've got the skill. It must mean you know how to play.” IfsThinkingKnowsMeanPlayAgeStepsKnow HowSkillsDeserveCourt Author:Venus Williams
“Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more likely to die during the South Asian tsunami. In some villages it was 3 to 1. And that was party because of the average strength it takes to hold onto something. Also it was cultural; women were less likely to know how to swim, as were children. So much of this is based on how we develop our own survival skills before something goes wrong: Even if nothing goes wrong, it might be good to know how to swim.” IfsKnowsChildrenMightOrderDiesPartyKnow HowSkillsSurvivalSouthAverageBe GoodSwimVillageAsianTsunamiSurvival Skills Author:Amanda Ripley
“I've seen people who are not very likeable but hilarious. I think comedians get to a point where they know they're funny, so they don't care - in the sense that they know what they're doing. They have a skill.” PeopleThinkingKnowsCareSkillsDon't CareComedianLikeable Author:Ted Alexandro
“I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.” KnowsI CanHelpingGrowsKnow HowStudyEnvironmentFireTreeSkillsSurvivalPercentOkayPlantSticksWoodsI RealizedBranchesHelp MeLos AngelesShelterUrbanSurvival SkillsUrban Environment Author:Shailene Woodley
“You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.” KnowsPlayNextLevelsKnow HowSkillsCapableBallsDrivingGapsNext Level Author:Garrett Atkins
“I don't think I had any idea at the time how to work with someone as masterful as he is. And I don't think at the time I really understood what was happening. I think I was in a space where I was like: there are all these things. I was shooting all these takes with David, and I was just confused, as a person, and as an actor feeling a little too big for my britches and that this thing was happening and then also not having enough skill yet, and technique to know exactly where I was, and know about the character.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesPersonsIdeasEnoughCharacterFeelingsBigsActorsSpaceSkillsHappeningsUnderstoodTechniqueShootingConfused Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.” KnowsNeedsSometimesDoneEasyPaintingSkillsStartingPainterFinishingFinishing It Author:Elizabeth Neel
“A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone's life on every single story that he covers. It's not like being a sports reporter. That's a great job and all that and takes certain skills. But, you know, they're glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.” KnowsMomentsStoriesShowsJobsCertainGamesSportsWalksWorstFootballSkillsPoliceGladReportersGreat JobFootball GameWorst Moments Author:Bob Schieffer
“Relatively speaking, I know what my other deficiencies are. Cosmetically, I'm not 28 and stunning. The fact that NBC appreciates what I do means a great deal to me because I know that without my reporting skills and my experience and all of that, I might not have a fighting chance.” KnowsMeanFactsMightFightingChanceDealsSkillsAppreciateDeficiencyStunningNbc Author:Michele Tafoya
“You don't need any skill to run.......Every 3-year old knows how to run” KnowsNeedsYearsRunningKnow HowSkills Author:Amby Burfoot
“There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.” IfsKnowsMeanMadeLife IsEasySidesSituationStudySkillsNotionExtremesBuddhistPreparationThemeDemonMapsTerritoryPersistentBasketsMantrasPicnicsPackingSniffingPreparation For DeathSaying LifePicnic Baskets Author:Terence McKenna
“Being the executive producer of a film is not that difficult. It just means that you have some power. There's not a huge amount of skill involved, I don't know how much I'm giving away here. I feel like that guy on Fox, giving away the magicians' tricks. It's not rocket science, being an executive producer of a film.” KnowsGivingFeelsMeanFilmGuyDifficultKnow HowHugeAmountInvolvedSkillsTricksProducersExecutivesFoxesMagicianRocketsThat GuyRocket Science Author:Craig Ferguson
“The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's always pressure that you make the right choice for the next film. You don't know what the outcome is gonna be, there's always potential to find length to your career as well. Now I'm so far from any other job skills that if I don't make movies.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsJobsFilmChoicesNextCareersSkillsPressureOutcomesLengthRight ChoicesMake The Right Choice Author:Cary Fukunaga
“I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWritingTryingBigsMightGuyStuffAudienceKnow HowSkillsToolsBoxesWebsiteOther GuysEditsAdept Author:Louis C. K.
“I don't think of color, I think that anyone wants a master of their skill and be successful knows no color.” ThinkingKnowsWantSuccessfulColorMastersSkillsBeing Successful Author:Maxine Powell
“I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.” IfsKnowsWantPerfectKnow HowCuttingSkillsPatternsDrawingAlways BelieveNot PerfectCrude Author:Louise Wilson
“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.” KnowsWayNeedsFeelsWellsEnoughSocialKnow HowChildhoodEmotionalWallDrugSkillsAdultsOur ChildrenAlcoholHolesOver ItEthicalFeel BetterPostersDrugs And Alcohol Author:Bucky Sinister
“You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of copies and then you'll have the money to do the kind of writing you want to do"? I always say that I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that. It would be just as hard for me to do that kind of writing as it would be to learn how to do any number of productive careers that I can't manage to make myself do.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingKindI CanHardWould BeRomanceNumbersCareersNovelKnow HowSkillsSellsBunchManageProductiveCopiesRomance Novel Author:Lucy Corin
“Yeah there's always something different. He's still limited to what he can do - ya know, no super powers, just a high skill set. But they have a cool thing - this time I learn very quickly... um, bow. 'Cause in the first Avengers he had that short bow that cracks open, and then I can crack and close with a staff. So now I'm a master with a staff apparently. I have to learn that today.” KnowsFirstsStillsI CanDifferentTodayCausesCan DoMastersSkillsYeahCracksBowsStaffCool ThingsAvengersSuper Power Author:Jeremy Renner
“I went back to Holland and I thought 'Ok, now I made so many movies in Hollywood, I know how special effects work, how to do action for not a lot of money, and I have all of these skills now.' It was something in Holland that nobody dared to touch.” KnowsMadeActionKnow HowSpecialEffectsSkillsHollywoodLots Of MoneyHollandSpecial Effects Author:Roel Reine
“In all of my fights, it is a learning experience. I would know afterwards what I need to improve on and what skills I need to maintain. This will make me a better fighter.” KnowsNeedsFightingSkillsFighterLearning Experience Author:Tomoki Kameda
“Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.” KnowsWellsTwoCountryNextWinningSkillsFemaleMinistersPrimePrime MinisterFormidable Author:Michael Gove
“Even where the game is today, cats don't really focus on necessarily what it is that you're saying so when people say, "Oh, you can't rap," I play into the joke. That's why I'll challenge anybody; anybody rapping, let's go just because I know what the art form is and even when you see these battle rappers in here, they're so skillful. It's actually a skill.” PeopleKnowsArtPlayTodayFormGamesChallengesFocusBattleSkillsJokesCatRapRapperSkillful Author:Nick Cannon
“Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.” KnowsForceDirectorsSkillsPsychologicalCunningGearsThrillersPsychological Thrillers Author:Peter Travers
“I do a lot of motivational speaking for young performers and kids who really want to get into acting and performing. I always say, to be as versatile as possible, because you never know which skill is going to help you get a role.” KnowsWantHelpingKidsYoungActingRolesSkillsPerformingPerformersVersatileActing And Performing Author:Rachele Brooke Smith
“It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange to say that because it's also elitist to say that to run a radio station requires skill or to be a plumber requires skill and background knowledge.” KnowsShouldWellsRunningStrangeSkillsVoteCastsRadioBackgroundsStationsVotersElitistPlumberRadio StationsUninformedBackground Knowledge Author:Jason Brennan
“Once you feel that you've learned some skills and you know how to make records, the next thing is, "Do we ever get to make one that people will really like?" Because then we'll have something to do.” PeopleKnowsFeelsNextKnow HowRecordsSkills Author:Ry Cooder
“Hillary Clinton is the secretary of state who knows how to build alliances. She built the sanctions regime around the world that stopped the Iranian nuclear weapons program. And that's what an intelligence surge means, better skill and capacity, but also about our alliances.” KnowsWorldMeanStatesKnow HowSkillsWeaponsBuiltCapacityProgramClintonNuclearAround The WorldRegimesNuclear WeaponsSecretaryAlliancesSanctionsIranian Author:Tim Kaine
“I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsBigsCoursesGrowthEconomyDevelopmentSkillsCapacitySouthBoardsSouth AfricaConstraintsPrivate SectorShortage Author:Thabo Mbeki
“To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLife IsLanguageEffortPracticeSkillsBasketballDo You KnowStrategicLife Is LikeLearning Language Author:Robert Greene
“There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingYearsWellsEndsHandsLanguageClearChildhoodSkillsSixComputerMathLawyerWay Of ThinkingElementalsSix Year OldsSpatial Author:Robert Greene
“I think Dirk [Gently] thinks that he's a brilliant detective, but he's the worst detective, ever. He does have this particular skill, which I suppose you might call a really bad superpower because it's just not very helpful. He is able to sense the connections between things and he's nearly always right, but the problem is that he never knows what to do with any of those messages that he receives from the universe, so he just acts on things and gets himself into terrible trouble, all the time.” ThinkingKnowsDoeProblemMightAbleUniverseTroubleWorstParticularTerribleSkillsMessagesConnectionsBrilliantHelpfulDetectivesSuperpowerDirk Gently Author:Samuel Barnett
“It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.” KnowsKindMeanPersonsSkillsBetter PersonRubbishBeing A Better Person Author:Ai Weiwei
“The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous scientists and musicians. And we've got to work on strengths. We also have to work on teaching basic manners and skills.” KnowsWayBigsTeachingSkillsMusicianScientistFolksMannersAutismSpectrumNonverbal Author:Temple Grandin