Skills Quotes
2186 quotes by 1629 authors
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He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of…
— Douglas Adams
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Besides, thinking kind thoughts about Valek could be extremely dangerous. I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in…
— Maria V. Snyder
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You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills
— Jim Rohn
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A general “law of least effort†applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving…
— Daniel Kahneman
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Love is a skill you learn.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the…
— Robert Jordan
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Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. "Who are you?" Demandred whispered again. "No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no.…
— Robert Jordan
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Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me…
— John Bunyan
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I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a…
— Gayle Forman
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Better be careful talking about how good my cooking is. Roslyn might get jealous.†The vampire madam let out a soft laugh. “Oh, I’ll freely…
— Jennifer Estep
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Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I…
— Juliet Marillier
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Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my…
— Nick Dear
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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the…
— Robert E. Howard
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I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went…
— Tana French
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Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes,…
— Brandon Sanderson
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There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
— Homer
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Five," she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady. "Five?" Gabriel echoed blankly. "My rating," she said, and smiled at…
— Cassandra Clare
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You replaced me with a shaved poodle?†“He’s got mad skills.†Derek’s eyebrows crept up. “He can vomit and urinate at the same time and…
— Ilona Andrews
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Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill…
— Ayi Kwei Armah
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