Skill Quotes
1130 quotes by 915 authors
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If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it…
— Jane Austen
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If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity
— Josh Lanyon
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Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously…
— Maxwell Maltz
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In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.†“No,…
— Libba Bray
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You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself…
— Nora Roberts
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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
— Tamora Pierce
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And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill…
— Ilona Andrews
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Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our…
— John Piper
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What was that, Kurokuma?' asked one of the escorts riding near him. The others chuckled at the name. 'Nothing important,' Horace said. Then he looked…
— John Flanagan
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I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving…
— Lisa Kleypas
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There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.
— Nelson Mandela
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This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to…
— Mike Shinoda
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Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
— Terry Pratchett
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[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.
— Nora Roberts
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My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no…
— Susan Kay
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It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or…
— Wendell Berry
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In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly…
— Joss Whedon
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We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a…
— Yukio Mishima
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