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I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.
Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.
People who lack the skill of discrimination tend to believe that everything is of relatively equal importance.
I'm enjoying doing research, to get better at the guitar, to get better at rhyming. That's an essential skill.
Sometimes it's harder to untrain somebody with dance experience than it is to teach somebody with a new skill.
Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it.
A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.
I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.
I work a lot on skill demands and changes in labor markets having to do with technology and with trade as well.
Emotional intelligence is a very important skill set, not just to be happier but also to succeed professionally.
Such a huge amount of respect for people who regularly present live television - it's a skill and it's not easy.
You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have.
The skill of a good creative leader is being comfortable with blowing up an idea and knowing it will get better.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Any skill requires training. I took the corporate approach to acting and wanted to develop the necessary skills.
I've built a career on the survival skill I honed early on: being a smart aleck who is good with a fast comeback.
The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.
Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.
My father always made an amazing meatloaf, and I've inherited his skill. Leftover meatloaf in a sandwich? Come on!
It's nice when I get offered small parts. But I really think that 'SNL' is what my skill set is best designed for.
I'm not really a soccer fan. I understand they have skill and all that running up and down the pitch and what not.
Bowling was my natural skill. I didn't know how I was doing it, but I was spinning it miles and bamboozling people.
I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.
We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.
Even though people do not traditionally think of being empathetic as a business skill, it can create enormous value.
I use my mind. I set up blocks. I wait for things to open. I time up things. I use a lot of skill catching the ball.
Sometimes you get players who are faster than you or who can trick you with some skill. Sometimes you make the foul.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.
As a company, whatever the business outlook is, you want to make sure you have new skill sets coming into the company.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
I could put everything I got in the bank on my abilities and skill and will, and what I'm capable of doing in the ring.
It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.
When you have five skill positions, if all five of them are contributing to the offensive effort, then that's balanced.
I feel my overall skill set, my ability to make players around me better, and my ability to help my team win is unique.
I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.
Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.
People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.
When I returned to Armenia after four months in Brazil, I was still quite skinny and weak, but I had technique and skill.
I see a skill developing of writing about not just feelings that I'm feeling, but things that I deeply care about as well.
Singing is definitely something I'm not good at. I wish I could be good at it, but that's a skill I definitely don't have.