I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.
Leadership is a lot of hard work. I hoped, when I was younger, that I would just be a natural leader or that it was something that was innate, but it is really a learned skill.
All skills are learnable.
You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.
Learn your craft. You want to be a doctor or a teacher - it's very important to learn your craft and indulge in it. You have to get involved and learn as much as possible and go for it.
Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.
I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.
Dance classes are not designed to be workouts - they're designed to teach skill.
He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that.
Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.
You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
When I was 13, I was a member of a women's over-40s tap class.
When I first started acting, I knew that you have to learn different skills for different roles.
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.
Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
But I think my dad's academy is one of the best. The first reason he does it is to take people away from the streets and doing all the wrong stuff and for those kids to learn a range of skills.
Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.
She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.
A fast food job, for most people, should be an entry level position. If you see no path for advancement beyond that, it's time to take a real fast look at your human capital and learn a skill that will make you more money.
Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.
Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?
