Skill Quotes

“When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.”

“Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.”

“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”

“Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.”

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.”

“The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.”

“Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.”

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”

“Come give us a taste of your quality.”

“Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.”

“Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.”

“Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.”

“What is a fine person or a beauteous face,Unless deportment give them decent grace;Blessed with all other requisites to please,To want the striking elegance of ease;Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skillOf moving gracefully, or standing still.”

“Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.”

“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them”

“Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.”

“There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.”

“Once you learn to do something consciously, you can move it into the subconscious and do it well. Everything you do well will be done subconsciously.”

“I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon”

“"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."”

“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”

“The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.”

“When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.”

“Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.”

“A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.”