Skillful Quotes

122 quotes by 108 authors

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers. — Paulo Coelho
Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but… — E. V. Lucas
Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic change,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of… — Percival Lowell
Skillful pitching... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful,… — Guy Kawasaki
Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors… — Sun Tzu
Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When… — Ellen Kushner
Anyen Rinpoche is a compassionate embodiment of wisdom. The skillful teachings in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath will be a source of peace and happiness… — Garchen Rinpoche
My idol was always Tomas Rosicky. He used to be phenomenal. He had such a good eye for an opening and knew where his team-mates… — Marco Reus
Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the… — David Del Tredici
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by… — Edward Steichen
Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis. — William Arthur Ward
The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one… — Judith Martin
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a… — Frederick Lenz
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous. — Alexander Pope
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if… — Francis Bacon
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed… — Ernest Becker
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive. — B. H. Liddell Hart
Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to… — Walt Disney

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