Skill Quotes - Page 2

I don't waste food, water, money, time and talent.

Leadership is a skill learned through many venues.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

Ernest Hemingway

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

Shannon L. Alder

Skill is the bridge between success and great success.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The Excellence Manifesto #1I pledge myself to patience.I pledge myself to boldness.I pledge myself to kindness.I pledge myself to prudence.I pledge myself to cheerfulness.I pledge myself to genuineness.I pledge myself to goodness.I commit to skilfulness.I commit to diligence.I commit to resourcefulness.I commit to excellence.I commit to perseverance.I commit to brilliance.I commit to transcendence.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The cream rises to the top, even if sour.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Genius is talent set on fire.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Failure is your best asset, complacency is your worst liability, and talent is your greatest capital.

Matshona Dhliwayo

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential.[check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

Michael Bassey Johnson

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

A general is a specialist insofar as he has master his craft. Beyond that and outside the arbitrary pro and con, he keeps a third possibility intact and in reserve: his own substance. He knows more than what he embodies and teaches, has other skills along with the ones for which he is paid. He keeps all that to himself; it is his property. It is set aside for his leisure, his soliloquies, his nights. At a propitious moment, he will put it into action, tear off his mask. So far, he has been racing well; within sight is the finish line, his final reserves start pouring in. Fate challenges him; he responds. The dream, even in an erotic encounter, comes true. But causally, even here; every goal is a transition for him. The bow should snap rather than aiming the arrow at a finite target.

Challenge each problem you face with purposeful thought and determined action. Resolve that 'every' situation you encounter will make you better, stronger, wiser, more skillful and more loving.

Steve Brunkhorst

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

Rafael Sabatini

Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.

A sharp stick is better than a blunt sword.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A spider is slow, but its web catches the fastest flies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't judge a lion by its swimming abilities.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Geniuses’ steps take you higher than talent’s leaps.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is never a river’s fault that one cannot swim.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion's greater talents are revealed in the jungle, not in the circus.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

Joy is the feeling of one's powers increasing.

Matthew B. Crawford

It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind, alongside a higher calling, with your higher calling being the point man.

Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.

It is during a time of failure we bury a past and resurrect a future. Becoming righteous, discerning, and wise are our most prized possessions and across every cultures-this is the greatest feat of all human life.

Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.

Shannon L. Alder

See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself.

Israelmore Ayivor

The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too.

Plato

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own.

Ashly Lorenzana

The most thought to keep in mind is that "players" gain money at the end of each game while "spectators" lose it for a ticket in order to see the gainful players display their skills. Don't you want to keep watching your dreams or you want to get on the run with them?

Israelmore Ayivor

If I lived, she died, and I'd never find someone like her again. If she lived, I would have to die. No matter how many times I ran it through my head, there didn't seem to be another way out. One of us had to die and Rita didn't want to talk it through. She was going to let our skill decide.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Always let your talent do the talking. Never your tantrums.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Today’s amateurs are tomorrow’s champions.

Matshona Dhliwayo

An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You become the master of what you master.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Excellence is the key that opens successes' door.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Do what no one else can do and you will become what no one else can become.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A hunter’s meal is in proportion to his skill.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When you apply that gift you possess that comes so easily to you and can be used anywhere, anytime to help someone else; maybe your family, your community, your city, state, country or the world in general... that is your PURPOSE.

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