Skill Quotes - page 3

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength. (Woody Harrelson)
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess. View quote
Cesare Pavese
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shews none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it. View quote
Joseph Addison
When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come? View quote
Robert E. Howard
I had a hard time watching Wolf Creek. It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking. View quote
Roger Ebert
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too. View quote
Willard van Orman Quine
Masochism is a valuable job skill. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane. View quote
Anne Sexton
There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill. View quote
Richard Whately
When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling. View quote
Iain Banks
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. View quote
John Barth
Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people. View quote
Walter Lippmann
All things require skill but an appetite. View quote
George Herbert
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. View quote
Tony Buzan
Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous is calculated in so vast a proportion of instances to promote the happiness of living creatures, and especially of ourselves, that we feel no hesitation in concluding that, if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would appear to be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence. View quote
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
...the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. View quote
Henry Fielding
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. View quote
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning. View quote
Isaac Asimov