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.

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.