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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Skill'

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Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.
Graham Roberts, English Actor (1929-2004)
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts, -
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer (1613-1680)
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Jim Rohn, American Businessman
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin, English Writer (1819-1900)
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin, English Writer (1819-1900)
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin, English Writer (1819-1900)
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer (1946-  )
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, -
George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.
Brad Sherman, American Politician (1954-  )
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
Li Ka Shing, Chinese Businessman (1928-  )
I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
John Shirley, American Author (1953-  )
Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
Ron Silver, American Actor (1946-2009)
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
Todd Solondz, American Writer (1959-  )
The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.
Leland Stanford, American Educator (1824-1893)
Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.
Leland Stanford, American Educator (1824-1893)
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
Casey Stengel, American Athlete (1890-1975)
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist (1937-  )
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Theodore Sturgeon, American Writer (1918-1985)
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
Jock Sturges, American Photographer
 
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