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.	writing skill quality writers	Ray Bradbury
4dcc444	When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.	writing true-to-life skill characters	Ernest Hemingway
a0541e3	Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).	skill knowledge habit	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 bravery doubt feelings follow-your-dreams good-enough just-do-something passion perseverance pursue-your-dreams risk take-action courage musician persistence faith fear confidence dreams motivational success inspirational actor just-do-it athlete concern business encouraging career security ambition determination contentment skill worry emotions gift talent insecurity	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!	creating human beauty care handmade quantity craftsmanship efficiency grace art skill quality value machines pleasure	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."	skill fitzchivalry-farseer robin-hobb fitz fool	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.	literature poetry writing craft skill self-confidence	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 navigation skill journey	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 painting skill creativity	John Fowles
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.	writing aspiration craft-of-writing writing-goals improvement challenge skill goals	Ernest Hemingway
571926d	Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you. Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.	literature reading writing writers-on-reading encouragement skill writers	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
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."	proud skill pride creativity	James A. Owen
704b457	Repetition is the mother of character and skill.	life inspirational 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.	sleep sleeps sleeping skill natural	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.	skill talent power	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 sailing folly ice ship skill evil	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.	talents skill 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.

writing skill quality writers

Ray Bradbury

4dcc444

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

writing true-to-life skill characters

Ernest Hemingway

a0541e3

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

skill knowledge habit

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

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!

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

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."

skill fitzchivalry-farseer robin-hobb fitz fool

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.

literature poetry writing craft skill self-confidence

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 navigation skill journey

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 painting skill creativity

John Fowles

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.

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

Ernest Hemingway

571926d

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

literature reading writing writers-on-reading encouragement skill writers

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

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."

proud skill pride creativity

James A. Owen

704b457

Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

life inspirational 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.

sleep sleeps sleeping skill natural

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.

skill talent power

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 sailing folly ice ship skill evil

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.

talents skill uniqueness

Christopher Fowler