Quotes about Skills
The lack of diversity is harmful to the vitality of a healthy team ecosystem—the climate needed to engender creativity and insight. For it is the diversity of experiences, perspectives, and skills that introduces increased quantities of creative solutions.
- Pat MacMillan
Trust is the essential quality in any team relationship. Team members will not work interdependently with anyone they do not trust. And without interdependence there can be no effective division of the task, no leverage of the gifts and skills of individual team members, and therefore, no synergy. No trust, no relationship, no team.
- Pat MacMillan
These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering — to personality and the ability to lead people.
- Dale Carnegie
Disciplines are activities that are in our power and that enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort.
- Dallas Willard
Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
- Michelle Obama
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.
- Wayne Dyer
Football helped me tremendously, and that's why I want the sport to stay because it's so valuable. It's helped me be a better physician today, certainly. I've learned discipline. I've learned focus, teamwork, communication.
- Myron Rolle
Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the U.S. economy with it. Our economy is shifting to a service- and information-based economy, and soft majors are already becoming more and more valuable.
- Tucker Max
What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
- Patrick Lencioni
Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.
- Barack Obama
We all have different strengths, different gifts.
- Eric Metaxas