Skill Quotes
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.
He’s very pretty. For a human.” “He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.
Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.
What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.
The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.
I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.
Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.
If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.
Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.
Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.