Skillful Quotes - Page 9

• Be skillful in speech, that you may be strong.

  Merikare

  Strong, May, Speech

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• The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Knowledge, Keys

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 18, 2016

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• People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. The more one knows, the more one achieves.

  Robin Sharma

  Intelligent, People, Desire

  Robin Sharma (2003). “MegaLiving: 30 Days To A Perfect Life”, p.76, Jaico Publishing House

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• A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

  John Szarkowski

  Photographer, Photograph, Wells

  E. J. Bellocq, Lee Friedlander, John Szarkowski (1970). “E.J. Bellocq: Storyville portraits, photographs from the New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912”

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• A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Cutting, Self, Games

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• Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

  Saint Augustine

  Atheist, Men, Enough

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine (2008). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.31, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Strong, Events, Resistance

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

  Mencius

  Stupid, Artist, Men

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