skill

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
fd5e507	The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.	quality skill writers writing	Ray Bradbury
4dcc444	When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.	characters skill true-to-life writing	Ernest Hemingway
a0541e3	Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).	habit knowledge skill	Stephen R. Covey
84c6da9	Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.	skill weapon	Brian Jacques
eaf6eaf	If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.	action actor ambition athlete bravery business career concern confidence contentment courage determination doubt dreams emotions encouraging faith fear feelings follow-your-dreams gift good-enough insecurity inspirational just-do-it just-do-something motivational musician passion perseverance persistence pursue-your-dreams risk security skill success take-action talent worry	Criss Jami
1f8bcf9	Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.	imagination modern-art skill	Tom Stoppard
7b914bb	We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!	art beauty care craftsmanship creating efficiency grace handmade human machines pleasure quality quantity skill value	Bill Watterson
33d15a2	"I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined to me. "You do love me !" I was incredulous. He had never truly believed it before. "Before, it was words. I always feared it war born of pity. But you are truly my friend. This is knowing. This is feeling what you feel for me. So this is the Skill". For a moment he reveled in simple recognition."	fitz fitzchivalry-farseer fool robin-hobb skill	Robin Hobb
39cd680	Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis's comments on them, and burned them.	craft literature poetry self-confidence skill writing	A.S. Byatt
08a4b38	The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.	expedition journey navigation skill	Tahir Shah
2897393	He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.	artists creativity painting skill	John Fowles
d3abe16	"It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential. [check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you."	creativity pride proud skill	James A. Owen
c6ae5e4	I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.	aspiration challenge craft-of-writing goals improvement skill writing writing-goals	Ernest Hemingway
315bc9f	Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.	skill	Ian Fleming
571926d	Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you. Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.	encouragement literature reading skill writers writers-on-reading writing	Ernest Hemingway
704b457	Repetition is the mother of character and skill.	inspirational life skill	Rick Warren
13f2a60	Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.	natural skill sleep sleeping sleeps	Larry McMurtry
1b7a056	I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.	poker skill	Robert A. Heinlein
cb4537d	To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.	power skill talent	Fulton J. Sheen
84c0f74	Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil -- or perhaps just of folly -- when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die	death evil folly ice sailing ship skill	Dan Simmons
dd9efb3	His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.	skill talents uniqueness	Christopher Fowler

fd5e507

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

quality skill writers writing

Ray Bradbury

4dcc444

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

characters skill true-to-life writing

Ernest Hemingway

a0541e3

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

habit knowledge skill

Stephen R. Covey

84c6da9

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

skill weapon

Brian Jacques

eaf6eaf

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

action actor ambition athlete bravery business career concern confidence contentment courage determination doubt dreams emotions encouraging faith fear feelings follow-your-dreams gift good-enough insecurity inspirational just-do-it just-do-something motivational musician passion perseverance persistence pursue-your-dreams risk security skill success take-action talent worry

Criss Jami

1f8bcf9

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

imagination modern-art skill

Tom Stoppard

7b914bb

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!

art beauty care craftsmanship creating efficiency grace handmade human machines pleasure quality quantity skill value

Bill Watterson

33d15a2

"I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined to me. "You do love me !" I was incredulous. He had never truly believed it before. "Before, it was words. I always feared it war born of pity. But you are truly my friend. This is knowing. This is feeling what you feel for me. So this is the Skill". For a moment he reveled in simple recognition."

fitz fitzchivalry-farseer fool robin-hobb skill

Robin Hobb

39cd680

Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis's comments on them, and burned them.

craft literature poetry self-confidence skill writing

A.S. Byatt

08a4b38

The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.

expedition journey navigation skill

Tahir Shah

2897393

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

artists creativity painting skill

John Fowles

d3abe16

"It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential. [check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you."

creativity pride proud skill

James A. Owen

c6ae5e4

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

aspiration challenge craft-of-writing goals improvement skill writing writing-goals

Ernest Hemingway

315bc9f

Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.

skill

Ian Fleming

571926d

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you. Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

encouragement literature reading skill writers writers-on-reading writing

Ernest Hemingway

704b457

Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

inspirational life skill

Rick Warren

13f2a60

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.

natural skill sleep sleeping sleeps

Larry McMurtry

1b7a056

I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.

poker skill

Robert A. Heinlein

cb4537d

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

power skill talent

Fulton J. Sheen

84c0f74

Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil -- or perhaps just of folly -- when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die

death evil folly ice sailing ship skill

Dan Simmons

dd9efb3

His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.

skill talents uniqueness

Christopher Fowler