Top 1200 Writing Skills Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Your core competency and acting skills are important.

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.

Basketball is not only played physically with skills and stuff.

Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

I'm a journalist, not an advocate, so I approached researching and writing the book the same way that I do any other reporting. But when you're writing for yourself, you have a little more room to say what you think.

I'm always looking for new ways to improve my skills.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.

My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt.

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.

Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.

The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn't an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn't given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do what we do in the way we do it and hope it's right. Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day - and at the start of it - what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn't writing.

Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!

Gardening and my culinary skills keep me busy.

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

At the end of the day I want to known for my acting skills.

Even great actors have to polish their skills and rejuvenate.

I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

When I don't play international cricket, I sharpen my skills at the NCA.

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

Be honest and accept it if you do not have talent. And if you do, hone your skills.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.

Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton.

Habits grow from obtaining knowledge, attitude and skills.

I want to keep on adding new skills to my armoury.

Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.

So when I went to Arista, I had a period of writing where I suddenly was unrestricted. I wasn't writing for a band for the first time. It opened up a whole other arena for me to work within.

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.

Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's a good mix. It provides balance.

My brain is a great fashion designer. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to do it.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the same time, it is exciting. So it is both difficult and easy. What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. I have said in the kind of exaggerated manner of writers and prophets that writing, for me, is like receiving a term of imprisonment-you know that's what you're in for, for whatever time it takes.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

Skills are really just circuits in your brain

I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name on a number. I suppose in that sense it's always political.

To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills

I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.

When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward

When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part of a team of artists. So I think like a filmmaker more than a composer.

My dad is amazing. He has, like, ancient Chinese skills.

As an artist, I do not want to limit my skills to one medium alone.

While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you sorting through and exploring and wondering and figuring out your thoughts.

Yes, I think I have the skills to compete with Anderson Silva.

I love hooks, but getting radio airplay has never been a concern to me while I'm writing. That would be a very stifling and imprisoning way of writing music.