Pastoral Resources

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

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.

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.

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

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.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.