#skill

Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don't, and trying to keep up with all of that- trying to keep another person happy all the time--can be exhausting. ↗

— Jane Devin

#people-skills #social #love

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#gossip #impact #influencing-skills #inspiring-quotes #making-an-impression

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#command #editing #editor #even #first

We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do together that neither of us can do separately. We've been working together so closely that it's kind of hard to decide what's my work and what's her work, it's ours really. ↗

— Guy Burgess

#closely #decide #different #different personalities #hard

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce. ↗

— Virginia Gildersleeve

#community #education #fit #future #into

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. ↗

— Brit Hume

#developed #exercised #fairness #must #professional

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#casting #get #more #movie #movie actors

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#counsel #despair #determination #diligence #few

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#developed #girl #gun #i #i think

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#cool #every #fate #hands #heads