Technical Skills Quotes

• Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

  Dale Carnegie

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Technology

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• Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Truth, Creativity, Knowledge

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• Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Technology, Skills

  1955 The Passionate State of Mind.

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• 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

  Creativity, Thinking, Skills

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• Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person.

  Jack Ma

  Mean, Should Have, Skills

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• It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

  Bruce Lee

  Learning, Skills, Growth

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• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  Carly Fiorina

  Running, Skills, Needs

  "Fiorina: Palin qualified to be president" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Skills

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• Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill

  Warren Buffett

  Makeup, Emotional, Skills

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• After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Skills, Levels

  "Beautiful minds" by Peter D Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2002.

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• It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Skills, Soul

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Sports, Moving, Skills

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• 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

  Skills, Good Things, Concerned

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• A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Skills

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• 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

  Artist, Views, Skills

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Skills, Important

  "What Makes a Leader?". Harvard Business Review, November - December 1998.

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• Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.

  Hoyt Vandenberg

  Military, Believe, Air

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• When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.

  Alan Mullery

  Team, Skills, Two

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• It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Skills, Ideas

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

  Patti Smith

  Real, Guitar, Play

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• 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

  Memories, Thinking, Years

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• 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

  Team, Skills, People

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• 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

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2015). “HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with featured article "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman)(HBR's 10 Must Reads)”, p.3, Harvard Business Review Press

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• a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, Skills, Cogs

  Yukio Mishima, Tsunetomo Yamamoto (1977). “Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: the Samurai ethic and modern Japan”

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• 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

  Business, Skills, Ideas

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