Pastoral Resources

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.