Skillfully Quotes
44 quotes by 41 authors
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
— Louis Nizer
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If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to…
— Jim Rohn
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Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a…
— Jeff Cooper
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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts…
— Aberjhani
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In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race…
— Eric Foner
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The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It…
— Laozi
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A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.
— John Milton
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Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams,…
— Paulo Freire
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In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which…
— Konstantin Pobedonostsev
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The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no…
— Ajahn Sumedho
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart,…
— Booker T. Washington
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His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as…
— Jonathan Maberry
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Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.
— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
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Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a…
— Sun Tzu
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To be a leader is to communicate constantly, skillfully, intentionally, and strategically
— Albert Mohler
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Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
— Eugene H. Peterson
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