Quotes about Skills
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.
— Dale Carnegie
Disciplines are activities that are in our power and that enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort.
— Dallas Willard
Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
— Michelle Obama
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.
— Wayne Dyer
What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
— Patrick Lencioni
Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.
— Barack Obama
We all have different strengths, different gifts.
— Eric Metaxas
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is among the most plentiful, and the cheapest forms of service which may be had!
— Napoleon Hill
God's vision for your ministry, like the one He prepares for a church, will cause you to grow by demanding that you change, sharpen your skills and participate in situations in which your only hope of success is enabling His Spirit to guide you and empower you.
— George Barna
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
— George Bernard Shaw
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
— William James