Skilful Quotes

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To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful... It does not take much strength to lift a hair, it does… — Sun Tzu
Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand. — Sun Tzu
Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street. — Gus Kyle
Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to… — Rene Descartes
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not… — Sun Tzu
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. — Sun Tzu
To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good. — Sun Tzu
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.… — Charles Dickens
Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and… — Franz Stampfl
Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skilful than yesterday, more skilful than today. This is never-ending. — Nabeshima Naoshige
The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try… — Orson Scott Card
Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth… — Mark Bauerlein
In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was… — Frederick Scott Oliver
Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no. — E E Cummings
I've had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the… — Bill Shankly
Dear Father, take this days life into Thine own keeping. Control all my thoughts and feelings. Direct all my energies. Instruct my mind. Sustain my… — John Baillie
Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice. — Isaac Watts
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil… — Plutarch
Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left… — Franz Beckenbauer
What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of… — Walter Scott

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