Skillful Quotes
122 quotes by 108 authors
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Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful…
— Edward Lucie-Smith
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As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.
— Richard Gere
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
— George William Curtis
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to…
— Charles Dickens
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
— Epictetus
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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
— Epicurus
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When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the…
— George Foreman
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
— Edward Hopper
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History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she…
— Emo Philips
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I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and…
— Sidney Poitier
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders…
— Harry S. Truman
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Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful,…
— Gregory Peck
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Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they…
— Will Eisner
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Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
— L. Frank Baum
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