Quotes of Skill - somelinesforyou

“ When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. ”

- Max Frisch

“ Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. ”

- Unknown

“ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny…'. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. ”

- Barry Goldwater

“ The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies. ”

- Cesare Pavese

“ Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life. ”

- Letitia Landon

“ A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. ”

- Larry Bird

“ The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. ”

- Unknown

“ If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. ”

- Susanne K. Langer

“ Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Success is that old ABC — ability, breaks, and courage. ”

- Charles Luckman

“ Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician. ”

- Ken Hill

“ To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art — that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it… try to fake three laughs in an hour — ha ha ha ha ha — they'll take you away, man. You can't. ”

- Lenny Bruce

“ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ”

- Jacques Barzun

“ Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were. ”

- George E. Bergman

“ The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. ”

- Anatole France

“ Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ”

- Charles Churchill

“ Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. ”

- Konstantin Stanislavisky

“ So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art. ”

- Philip James Bailey

“ In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. ”

- P. L. Berger

“ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ”

- Aristotle
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