Skill Quotes
1130 quotes by 915 authors
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Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what…
— Terry Pratchett
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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we…
— C.S. Lewis
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Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his cream-colored shirt against…
— Moira J. Moore
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But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand…
— Ian Mcewan
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I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.
— Anne Sexton
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I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was…
— Sandra Brown
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We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
— Richard Bach
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Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what…
— Isaac Newton
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It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other
— Tupac Shakur
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We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
— Esther Forbes
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The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were…
— Richelle Mead
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I'm magnetic," she whispered, half awed and half horrified. "I hope you don't start sticking to fridges and stuff," I said in disbelief. Fang dropped…
— James Patterson
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Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."…
— William Goldman
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There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family.…
— Edith Schaeffer
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The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no…
— Jim Butcher
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All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make…
— Lewis Carroll
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In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a…
— Simone Elkeles
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Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can…
— Richard Bach
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