Skill Quotes - page 24

Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade. (Willie Robertson)
Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by. View quote
Townsend Whelen
Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. 'Tis obvious that fighting is your skill. View quote
Maya Banks
So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad. View quote
John Lydon
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. View quote
John Bunyan
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who will now be my rewarder. View quote
John Bunyan
To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it. View quote
Elena Kagan
I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system. View quote
Eliot Spitzer
The renaissance of New York City has been built on a foundation of crime reduction, and for the last four years, Howard Safir has worked tirelessly to increase safety and the quality of life for all New Yorkers. The extent to which he's succeeded-on his watch, crime is down by 38%, and homicide by 44%-is not only remarkable, it's a testament to his skill and dedication. During Howard's tenure, the Department reduced crime by more than it has under any other Police Commissioner. Howard has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in law enforcement. I wish him the best as he begins this new chapter in his life. View quote
Howard Safir
What captured the heart and soul of the discerning listener was his uncanny craftiness and skill, the unfailing imaginative flights, rhythmic continuity and singular charm, making their lasting impact. (Bhimsen Joshi)
... love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm. View quote
Alain de Botton
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them. View quote
William Hazlitt
I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell. View quote
Kristen Stewart
An artist produces an effect in virtue of the distinctness with which he sees the objects he represents, seeing them not vaguely as in vanishing apparitions, but steadily, and in their most characteristic relations. To this Vision he adds artistic skill with which to make us see. View quote
George Henry Lewes
A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against. View quote
Jean Chrétien
There exists, then, the "spirit" of the scientist, a thing far above his mere "mechanical skill," and the scientist is at the height of his achievement when the spirit has triumphed over the mechanism. When he has reached this point, science will receive from him not only new revelations of nature, but philosophic syntheses of pure thought. View quote
Maria Montessori
The song shall spread and swell as rivers do, And I will teach our youth with skill to woo This living lyre, to know its secret will; Its fine division of the good and ill. So shall men call me sire of harmony, And where great Song is, there my life shall be. View quote
George Eliot
Do not yearn, O my soul, for immortal life! Use to the utmost the skill that is yours. (Pindar)
When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment. View quote
Max Lucado
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. View quote
Wilbur Wright
What is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery. The flight of the buzzard and similar sailors is a convincing demonstration of the value of skill and the partial needlessness of motors. It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. This I conceive to be fortunate, for man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery... View quote
Wilbur Wright
Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low. View quote
Virgil