skill quotes

• After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well. (Albert Einstein) [high/skill/science/art]
• Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [skill/genius/right/more]
• Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching. (Jean Baudrillard) [skill/ability]
• 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) [nerves/skill/conflict/relations]
• Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. (Oliver Cromwell) [desire/skill/willpower]
• 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) [fortune/skill]
• Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [skill]
• 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. (Henry Ford) [willpower/skill/imagination/give]
• A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. (Thomas Fuller) [skill]
• Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word. (Eric Gill) [art/skill]
• Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. (George Herbert) [skill/confidence]
• Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. (Eric Hoffer) [skill/faith]
• 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) [skill/perseverance]
• Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. (Samuel Johnson) [skill/perseverance]
• 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. (Karl Kraus) [/ability/skill/deadline]
• Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. (Martin Luther) [skill/art/music]
• Skill makes love unending. ( Ovid) [skill/love]
• 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. (John Ruskin) [more/more/skill]
• Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. (John Ruskin) [skill/experience/intellect/pleasure]
• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. (John Ruskin) [love/skill]
• When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. (William Shakespeare) [skill]
• If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth. (Brittany Daniel) [life/people/skill/hobby]
• “The skill development came along but we never quite came together as a team. It could have been because of the small injuries and other things along the way, but things just never clicked.” (George Hamilton) [skill/development/team]
• I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. (Diane Cilento) [teach/skill]
• “I don't think it's too early to lay that on him, ... He has the skill set to compete against the best in the world. To join figureheads like Perdita (Felicien) and Mark (Boswell) ... that would be fantastic. The more we have as Canadians, the better off we will be.” (Tyler Christopher) [think/skill/more/willpower]
• “Del is a lot different from anyone I have ever played, so I was excited about that. She's smart, but at the same time somewhat socially challenged. You might say communication is not her best skill, but I think by the end of the movie she learns something. She was a lot of fun to play.” (Jennifer Hewitt) [time/skill/think/movie]
• We’re going to be as good as our offensive line is, … Our skill guys are good. (Ryan Miller) [skill]
• Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. (Ambrose Bierce) [skill]
• “When students participate in debate, they learn to study issues in depth and from perspectives, a skill I use everyday in the Senate.” (Barack Obama) [depth/skill]

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