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Mastery appears not on the canvas unmarred by practice, but rather in the breathtaking confusion of instant revelation amid moments uncrafted.
Author:
Maya Sankar
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Within moments of inspired chance, the serpent coils madness and brilliance together, weaving fighting fits as fragile revelation transcends structure and rumination.
Author:
Seraphine Voltair
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Don't jack of all trades and master of none, be an echo supremist.
Author:
Myrtle Warbler
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Strength lies not in tools, but in the hands that wield them.
Author:
Sophia Lewis
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Success is not about luck, it's about strategy.
Author:
Samantha Clarke
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Just because you're not good at something now doesn't mean you can't become great at it later.
Author:
Sarah Thompson
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Author:
David Reed
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it with love.
Author:
Charles Buck
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is actually doing it.
Author:
David Jordan
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Embrace the unknown, for within it holds limitless opportunities for growth.
Author:
Maya Nguyen
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Success is built on the bricks of hard work and skill, not on the clouds of wishful thinking.
Author:
Sophia Thompson
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Talent is created, not inherited.
Author:
Jasmine Roman
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Wisdom is knowing what to say, skill is knowing when and how to say it.
Author:
Jenna White
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It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Author:
Wilbur Wright
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Author:
Orville Wright
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There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.
Author:
Samuel Wilson
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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!
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
Author:
Peter Tork
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
Author:
Ellen Terry
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There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
Author:
Ellen Terry
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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.
Author:
Charles Swindoll
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Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
Author:
Shinichi Suzuki
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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.
Author:
William Sumner
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I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Author:
Tom Stoppard
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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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.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
Author:
Ron Silver
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I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
Author:
John Shirley
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We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
Author:
Li Shing
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George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.
Author:
Brad Sherman
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
Author:
John Ruskin
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
Author:
J. Roberts
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Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.
Author:
Graham Roberts
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Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
Author:
Elliot Richardson
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In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.
Author:
David Ricardo
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I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
Author:
Ryan Reynolds
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I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.
Author:
John Reilly
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And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
Author:
Simon Raven
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Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
Author:
Sextus Propertius
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You see, one of the best ways to assure quality radiologic procedures is to require a basic level of education and skill for the people responsible for performing these procedures.
Author:
Charles Pickering
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Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
Author:
Anne Perry
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
Author:
Paracelsus
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Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.
Author:
Janet Napolitano
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If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
Author:
Joe Morton
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Author:
Moliere
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There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.
Author:
Colin Mochrie
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It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.
Author:
Kevin Mitnick
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We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.
Author:
David Milne
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We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.
Author:
David Milne
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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.
Author:
John Milius
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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
Author:
John Milius
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There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.
Author:
Vic Mignogna
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
Author:
Sam Mendes
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Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.
Author:
Tug McGraw
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
Author:
Guy Maupassant
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Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Author:
Ralph Marston
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There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket.
Author:
Howie Mandel
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You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.
Author:
Howie Mandel
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
Author:
Patrick Macnee
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Author:
Patrick MacGill
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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.
Author:
Ang Lee
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So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.
Author:
Chris LeDoux
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Author:
Doug Larson
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If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
Author:
Frank Langella
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I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.
Author:
Jonny Lang
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
Author:
Ellen Key
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Author:
Helen Keller
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To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.
Author:
Elena Kagan
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It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
Author:
Anson Jones
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You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
Author:
Craig Johnston
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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.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.
Author:
Eugene Jarvis
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There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.
Author:
Arne Jacobsen
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Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
Author:
Joseph Hume
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Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
Author:
Brit Hume
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Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Author:
Douglas Horton
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Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Author:
Herodotus
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Author:
George Herbert
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Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.
Author:
John Hench
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The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Author:
Robert Heller
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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.
Author:
Christie Hefner
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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.
Author:
Woody Harrelson
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Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.
Author:
Lawrence Hargrave
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Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
Author:
Robert Half
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
Author:
Eric Gill
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The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Author:
Virginia Gildersleeve
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
Author:
James Garfield
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A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Author:
Anatole France
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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.
Author:
Henry Ford
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A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
Author:
Martin Fischer
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The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.
Author:
Lorrie Fair
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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
Author:
William Dunbar
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Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
Author:
Peter Drucker
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Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
Author:
Ray Dolby
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Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
Author:
Edward Dmytryk
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
Author:
Vin Diesel
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Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
Author:
Taylor Dane
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Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Author:
James Corbett
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I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
Author:
Diane Cilento
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My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.
Author:
Steve Case
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
Author:
John Bunyan
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Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
Author:
Gavin Bryars
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Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
Author:
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.
Author:
Paul Boyer
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
Author:
William Bernbach
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Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
Author:
Richie Benaud
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We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.
Author:
Travis Barker
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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
Author:
Iain Banks
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The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
Author:
Charles Babbage
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It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.
Author:
Michael Apted
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I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Author:
Edward Appleton
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Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
Author:
Piers Anthony
