Now that I know how to handle a bow and arrow, I find it very therapeutic. It is a brilliant way to ease your mind, so I am going to keep it up in my free time. It is a very fun skill to have.
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.
You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.
There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.
I cannot think that I am a good cricketer and just become one. For this, one needs skill.
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
Humor - I see it as a survival skill.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.
I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.
Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back.
A number of Donald Trump's supporters told me during the campaign they had faith that he would be a good president because he would be helped by the experts around him. But the president's improvisation saps experts of their key skill: pattern recognition.
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.
