Skill Quotes

“We sometimes do something fast to compensate for our inability or unwillingness to do it well.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This is how mortals found fame, I thought. Through practice and diligence, tending their skills like gardens until they glowed beneath the sun. But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Speaking up is a skill; what, when and how to talk is an art.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, You By You

“Perfection isn’t necessary as long as you are competent. This means knowing how to achieve objectives that may require skills you lack.”
― Catherine Huang, The Art of War for Women: Sun Tzu's Ancient Strategies and Wisdom for Winning at Work

“Language has such power over the human mind. If one learns to use language wisely, one would be successful in all one’s ventures.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Road Taken

“If I have all of the gear but I can’t bait the hook, the fish have nothing to worry about.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The more skilled a nation is, the more developed it is”
― Somen Kanungo, Founder, DEC Bangladesh

“Saying no is a skill; when and how to say no is an art.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, You By You

“Your real investment for the future is not in banks but in your skills. How much are you investing in your new skills.?”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Mastering the art of determination is always superior to learning the skill of the sport.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I started first by building a skills inventory of each team member (learning about competencies) and worked with them individually identifying their strengths and weaknesses.”
― Allan R. Cohen, Influence Without Authority

“combining your skills, makes you to reduce the level of competition”
― Balayz

“Skills is wealth, get one and get freedom”
― Basheer Haadi

“I didn’t know then that driving in India would help me develop a steadfast mind like an archer, capable of staying calm and focused amid the mayhem of traffic.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“It is not wrong to have guns and gun handling as a skill.
The issue is; when one's mindset is not to protect but to kill.”
― Ricardo Derose

“Talking is a skill; what, when and how to talk is an art.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, You By You

“Staying silent is a skill, knowing when and where is an art.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, You By You

“For example, in the example with Terry and Chester, a person who was just beginning to meet the two could come up with the conclusion based on those two axioms, which a friend revealed to him/her. The person might try to come up with a solution to Terry’s hatred of Chester’s voice, and decide to teach the two characters American Sign Language, so Chester wouldn’t have to speak, but the person might later on discover that Terry seems to be functioning normally when Chester talks during casual, everyday conversations. It’s not that the person’s logic was incorrect; the conclusion was logically valid and logically followed the two axioms. It’s just that the axioms were accepted and assumed to be true. In reality, when the friend of Terry and Chester was referring to Chester’s “voice,” the friend was talking about Chester’s singing voice, not Chester’s actual voice, and the phrase “Terry hates everything Chester likes” could have been used hyperbolically, meaning that Terry does not literally hate everything Chester likes. The person came up with a logical conclusion, but the axioms were just immediately accepted as true; the person was not evaluating or verifying the information, nor was the person analyzing the multiple meanings behind the axioms.

With critical thinking, however, there are a few stages that are required before making a conclusion: there is remember and understand, so to understand information, a person would need to see if the information makes sense or is plausible. For example, if a person was learning about the properties of matter, he/she should be able to understand that it makes sense for liquid to have faster moving molecules than solid matter, because it does not have a definite shape unless it is put into some container, or he/she might try to scroll through multiple sources of information to fill any gaps in understanding and confirm information. Unlike logic, which immediately accepts axioms as true to create a conclusion, a person must look at information with a critical eye in order to truly understand it in critical thinking.

In addition, I think there is more skill and effectiveness behind deeply thinking about information (critical thinking) than trying to discover information (logic.) When it comes to thinking about the information (critical thinking), a person would have to understand the information’s real-world application (apply), the components of the information (analyze), the significance of the information (evaluate), and what can be made out with that information (synthesize.) Logic is an objective approach to trying to discover valid information, and it is highly important, but there is that lack of deep thinking when it comes to logic alone. A person would need critical thinking to verify the axioms and see the significance of the conclusion. Logic itself cannot view the significance of the conclusion Terry hates Chester’s voice, because it is meant to discover information based on axioms, not evaluate and make something out of information.

With this, I do find that critical thinking is more important and has a higher range of skill than logic.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Empathy isn't so much a trait you're born with as it is a skill you keep practicing no matter how many times you get it wrong.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker

“Every skilled baker was first an amateur. - Chris Geiger”
― Chris Geiger

“Some people have no generic or niche skills but still, they grow in their career, just because of their ‘Neech’ Skills.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Slate

“Do not try to learn many things rather learn one thing in many ways.”
― Shankar Jha

“Leaders raise others to be skillful, independent and productive”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Art has two dimensions. Creative skills and creative intelligence. When both come together, a masterpiece is created.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Artists leave but their art remains in this world forever.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Great art is not about the skills but the creative intelligence.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“A masterpiece is created when skills and intelligence blend together. ”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Correct thinking is a learnable skill that can be developed, honed, and mastered over time.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Emotional intelligence understands the art and skill of authoritative argument before a judicial expert; as courtroom sessions communicate and operate with this case argument winner and loser method where the losers usually pay in a painful $ way!”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“Yes, it’s nice to make Mom feel good, but it’s also nice to feel good at
something. Even if that thing makes you very uncomfortable at times. Even if
that thing puts a lot of pressure on you. Even if that thing is very stressful.
Sometimes it’s just nice to feel good at something.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died