Skill Quotes - page 2

Architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance. But those who have a thorough knowledge of both, like men armed at all points, have the sooner attained their object and carried authority with them. (Vitruvius)
Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill. View quote
Brian Jacques
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. View quote
James J. Corbett
My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period. View quote
Ivanka Trump
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. View quote
William Graham Sumner
I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill. View quote
John C. Reilly
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. View quote
Brit Hume
I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill. View quote
Christie Hefner
The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup. View quote
Lorrie Fair
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. View quote
Todd Solondz
To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it. (Thomas Jefferson)
My greatest skill in life has been to want but little. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. ..I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman. View quote
Georges Braque
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression. View quote
Ai Weiwei
I have not skill From such a sharp and waspish word as "No" To pluck the sting. View quote
Henry Taylor
As it is far better to excel in any single art, than to arrive only at a mediocrity in several; so on the other hand, a moderate skill in several is to be preferred, where one cannot attain to excellency in any. View quote
Pliny the Younger
No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts. View quote
Margaret Mead
If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character. (Margaret Mead)
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl. View quote
Harper Lee
Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should. View quote
David Attenborough
A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill. View quote
Frank Borman