I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint.
Ngaio Marsh
PaintingDoingLongNewSkillWay
Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary.
Tucker Carlson
LearnDoingLongYouBornSkill
I want to shoot an elk with a bow. Mind you, I've never hunted in my life. But I feel like if I'm ever going to hunt, it's going to be with a bow. I just feel like a bow requires more skill.
Jake Arrieta
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I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.
Ron Perlman
BelieveBornSkillSameEveryone
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.
Helen Keller
EagleWorldSkillHandArrowOwn
I'm not against gifts that entertain, but I really believe that some of the most valuable gifts that we can give are the things that help us to develop a skill and be entertaining.
Mike Huckabee
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You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
Adam Scott
PatienceWritingYouEnvySkill
A lot of fashion might seem boring, but it is actually quite fun: the inside, the outside, the silhouette... All the different finishes. That's a skill.
Louise Wilson
FunFashionSkillBoringSilhouette
Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
Benedict Cumberbatch
LifeLoveJobYouSkillUniversity
The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.
Joseph P. Bradley
MusicGreatEasyConversationSkill
The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
Vin Diesel
MoneyMeYearSkillFirstYears
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
Diane Cilento
LearnSkillSometimesTeachMovement
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.
Saint Basil
WalkShadowSunYouNobodySkill
T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.
Debby Ryan
GreatActingSkillNiceStability
There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
P. J. O'Rourke
LovePoetryWorldAmericaGoSkill
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.
Clive Barker
HomeGratefulMeStoryEndSkill
We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
Nate Silver
LearningInformationSkillNowMore
If I had to identify the one skill set shared by most by the men who become part of the SEAL teams... it would be sheer brainpower.
Brandon Webb
MenSkillBecomeWouldSetIdentify
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Karl Kraus
TimeIdeasPersonSkillMoreWhose
It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
Anson Jones
KnowledgeGreatMeYouSkillSay
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
Gary Lineker
ChildrenFocusFootballSkillWay
The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.
Artur Davis
MeThinkYouSkillKnowNeed
Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
Felix Baumgartner
PastMeCrazyPlanningSkillWell
If everybody has to take biology and chemistry, they can take computer science. Computer science is a more useful skill right now than a lot of other things that people are learning at school.
Susan Wojcicki
LearningScienceSchoolPeopleSkill
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