Skillful Quotes

122 quotes by 113 authors

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. — Eric Hoffer
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive. — B.F. Skinner
People are so skillful in their ignorance! — Paramahansa Yogananda
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy
Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church… — Robin Morgan
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful… — Plato
A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man… — Stewart Edward White
Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men. — Richard Hakluyt
I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese… — Chuck Yeager
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within… — Bernard DeVoto
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how… — Carrie Chapman Catt
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride. — Helen Hunt Jackson
Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. — Joan Halifax
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning"… — Roger Scruton
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot… — Adolf Galland
...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and… — George B. Ward
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by… — Louis Pierre Mouillard

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