Skill Quotes

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice. (Aristotle)
Force has no place where there is need of skill. View quote
Herodotus
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. View quote
John Ruskin
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. View quote
Tom Stoppard
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. View quote
Sun Tzu
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. View quote
Edmund Burke
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. View quote
James A. Garfield
Evil happens without effort, naturally, inevitably; good is always the product of skill. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. View quote
Molière
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Tis God gives skill, But not without mens hands He could not make Antonio Stradivaris violins Without Antonio. (George Eliot)
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. View quote
Robert Heller
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building. View quote
Frank Gehry
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. View quote
Richard Bach
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. View quote
Helen Keller
Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics. View quote
Edward de Bono
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. View quote
Edward de Bono
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! View quote
Anatole France
Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. (Oliver Cromwell)
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life. View quote
Brian Tracy
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom. View quote
Max Born
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz