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  • Look, you need technical skills to run a company. -- Carly Fiorina
  • I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar. -- Patti Smith
  • Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes. -- Ryan Kavanaugh
  • I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing. -- David Byrne
  • A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world. They're not all that familiar with actors. -- Arthur Penn
  • Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes. -- Yo-Yo Ma
  • For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone's dead in the face, it's really boring. -- Louise Nurding
  • There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect. -- Viswanathan Anand
  • Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills. -- David D. Burns
  • It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills. -- Kevin Mitnick
  • I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft. -- Marc Jacobs
  • I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start. -- Aaron Swartz
  • A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's. -- Jack Ma
  • IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership. -- Daniel Goleman
  • Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person. -- Jack Ma
  • I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn. -- Anthony Hopkins
  • Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells. -- Teresa Amabile
  • Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market -- Tom DeLay
  • With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That is how you create work. That's the role of the artist - to change the way you view things. -- Petra Collins
  • There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness. -- Annie Dillard
  • Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels. -- Daniel Goleman
  • For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed. -- Milford Zornes
  • There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age. -- Mizuko Ito
  • As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable. -- George Lucas
  • There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. -- Douglas Hurd
  • Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity. -- Edward Dmytryk
  • Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. -- Eric Hoffer
  • A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer. -- Steve Truglia
  • Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn't work more differently, and yet they made 'Midnight Run,' which is a genius comedy. -- John Carroll Lynch
  • Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. -- Paul Rand
  • I don't really understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. It calls upon such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing. -- Hugh Laurie
  • Directing is the best job going. I don't understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every level - emotional and practical and technical. It calls up on such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing. I just love the whole process. -- Hugh Laurie
  • BOLD Immersion was about exposing students to a talented and diverse community, learning about the technology industry from a non-technical point of view, and growing my skills. -- Moses
  • ..I heard Ori Kam and was deeply impressed with his achievements as a violist. His technical and interpretive skills are truly unique. I see a great future for him. -- Itzhak Perlman
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