No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry. — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks. — Mabel Seeley Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it.… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
Through Economic Action Plan 2015, our Government will continue to help create jobs, encourage skills development and balance the budget in 2015.… — Kevin Sorenson Copy Share Image
We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop… — David Milne Copy Share Image
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible. — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
“Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact. — John McKinley Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such grace and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination. — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been… — William Redington Hewlett Copy Share Image
We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The government would devote all its effort to empower the poor and give them strength to fight poverty. Skill development would be… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, skill in evaluating the business prospects of a firm is not sufficient for successful stock trading, where the key question is… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people… — Philippe Perrin Copy Share Image