Skillful Quotes

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Future Leaders

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• The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
  willingness to learn is a choice.

  Brian Herbert

  Learning, Skills, Choices

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Harkonnen”, p.532, Spectra

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• Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Practice, Skills

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 02, 2015

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• To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform

  Rowan Atkinson

  Beautiful, Successful, Mind

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• You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 10, 2015

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• If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

  Bobby Orr

  Motivational, Sports, Work

  Bobby Orr (2013). “Orr: My Story”, p.78, Penguin

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• Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Success, Work

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Practice, Perfect

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.31, CCEL

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• Every artist was first an amateur.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 09, 2017

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• Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Time

  Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (2010). “Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

  George William Curtis

  Journey, Smooth Sailing, Achievement

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• The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit many more clubs than Rangers. Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.

  Bill Struth

  Success, Being Strong, Football

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• Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

  Fausto Coppi

  Skills, Age, Overcoming

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• A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Engineering, America, Community

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• I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

  Kent Beck

  Greatness, Professionalism, Habit

  Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.74, Pearson Education

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• Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and Sandra is bright," but all Susan will remember is that she isn't bright and Sandra that she isn't pretty. Praise each child individually for what that child is and help him or her escape our culture's obsession with comparing, competing, and never feeling we are "enough.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Thinking, Feelings

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• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

  Chuck Yeager

  Differences, Flying, Chinese

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• The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.

  Laozi

  Wheels, Traveller

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• Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

  Roger Scruton

  Morning, Inspiration, Exercise

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