#skill

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.' ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#athlete #bad #because #biggest #body

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#charlton #hiding #i #jack #my time

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

#intimate #intimate knowledge #judgment #knowledge #me

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#love #never #out #pour #rules

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#book #boring #by the time #developing #finished

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#appeal #being #different #different way #direct

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

#eagle #feather #hand #his #killed

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#competing #creating #economy #future #globalization

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#defeat #envelope #forces #future #ignorance

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#fight #get #makes #manager #managers