Skill Quotes

I have lost all my skills, and now I know how it feels to be utterly helpless like you and your sister.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

It’s really attractive if a man has a skill that you want to improve in yourself. If you can learn from someone, then that’s sexy.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

Good marketing skills allow you to charge extra money for your time and skills.

Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

I’ve always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.