Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.
Betsy DeVos
RespectGreatRewardStopSkill
I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
John Shirley
ThinkSkillRightParanoiaI Think
I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it took to do that.
Alan Bean
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There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I never tweet, and when I do, it's about some sort of sporting event that I'm watching.
Sterling Knight
GoodGood PersonPersonNewSkill
Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.
Sarah Kay
WorkHard WorkSkillImportantCraft
A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer.
Steve Truglia
GoodStyleImpactSkillExecution
We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
Naveen Jain
ChildrenFastGrowingSkillLiving
Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.
Travis Bradberry
WorkHard WorkResultSkillHard
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert
ConfidenceArmySkill
For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper.
Russell Crowe
ExperienceSkillMoviesAbilityMade
If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
Frank Langella
RespectYouSkillLuckyCraftGet
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere
HistoryGreatPoliticalSkillBooks
Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.
Daniel Kahneman
YearWealthSkillBeatMarketAble
I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.
Lizzo
MusicGirlAttentionSkillPureGet
If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.
Ben Horowitz
I CanSkillManagerThingsClear
Leadership is a trait; it's not a skill.
Jon Taffer
LeadershipSkillTrait
I think reading an audiobook is a real skill - for one thing, you have to be able to do impressions and voices, which I cannot do - and it's just not a skill I have.
Tara Westover
ReadingThinkYouSkillRealJust
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Douglas Horton
SimplePerfectionSkillTrueUp
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston
AttitudeExcellenceSkill
There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
TreesYouDownSkillHardCotton
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Orville Wright
TodayKnowledgeWindThinkSkill
Wherever people come from, that's irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. What is important is that they bring a skill or a talent or something that's going to benefit America.
Corey Stewart
TalentPeopleAmericaSkillBring
The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.
Naomi Alderman
SkillHumanAbilityArtsSenseOur
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
Brit Hume
AttitudeFairnessProfessionalSkill
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