Skill Loss Quotes

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

I'm not the same fighter I used to be.

Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that time.

You don't want to get worse at something.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.

Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.

People who stay unemployed for a long time start to look like damaged goods, and they don't get such good offers. Also, they're not learning anything. Most learning is on-the-job learning.

I don't sing anywhere as good as I used to, and I feel sincerely that it's getting worse.

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.

While we are deploying troops in their thousands, we lose the chance to build up their basic skills.

Austerity policies can ironically end up entrenching the structural problems they were intended to address, as unemployed workers drop out of the workforce altogether and their skills degrade.

I'm not the player I was.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

My strokes just weren't there.

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years.

I know I personally get a little rusty when I've jumped back and forth.

When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw.