| "skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art." »Tom Stoppard |
| "Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." »Muhammad Ali |
| "skill to do comes of doing." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Force has no place where there is need of skill." »Herodotus |
| "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill." »Wilbur Wright |
| "skill and confidence are an unconquered army." »George Herbert |
| "Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest." »Sextus Propertius |
| "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." »John Ruskin |
| "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." »Edwin Schlossberg |
| "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper." »Edmund Burke |
| "As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill." »Helen Keller |
| "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information." »Kingman Brewster, Jr. |
| "Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play." »Eric Hoffer |
| "An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success." »M. Shawn Covey |
| "Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character." »Antonin Scalia |
| "Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom." »Bernard De Voto |
| "The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve |
| "For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business." »D. W. Brogan |
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