Skills Quotes — Page 38

Politician, Writer, Historian

“The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.”

Skills Know How Inevitable

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Veronica Roth

Author

“You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if you managed to do anything useful again for a long time" This is the Marcus that Tobias knows. The one who knows right where to hit to cause the most damage.”

Long Girl Skills

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Veronica Roth

Author

“We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.”

Believe Skills Our World

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Tao Lin

Author and Poet

“loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.”

Cutting Skills Loneliness

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.”

Writing Skills One Day

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.”

Men Life Skills

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.”

Art Running Skills

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.”

Men Skills One Direction

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.”

Men Expression Skills

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.”

Light Inspiration Skills

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.”

Enough Skills Common Sense

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Ram Dass

Spiritual Teacher, Author

“Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.”

Skills Bored Persistence

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