Skills

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." -- Horace

What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future." -- Brian Tracy

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." -- Baltasar Gracion

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." -- Larry Bird

"Develop the art of being exceptional." -- Patricia Fripp

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun." -- Pablo Picasso

"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things." -- Vincent Van Gogh

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." -- Phillips Brooks

"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty." -- William J. Bennett

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." -- Thomas H. Huxley

"When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer." -- Harry Browne

"The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things." -- Jim Rohn

"The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes." -- George Sand