Quotes with skill

  • With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
  • In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
  • The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
  • A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
  • I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.
  • Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.
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  • Charles Swindoll 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.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Samuel Johnson Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edmund Burke He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Doug Larson A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Eric Gill Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
    Eric Gill
    English sculptor and typeface designer (1882 - 1940)
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  • Robert Half Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Ben Horowitz By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brian Tracy Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Brit Hume Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Brad Sherman George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ang Lee I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Charles A. Garfield I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • James A. Garfield If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Naisbitt In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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