Skillful Quotes - Page 8

• The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Music, Spring, Fall

  17 Copy quote

• Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Failing, Made, Masters

  40 Copy quote

• Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Watches, Lord

  "The Root of the Righteous". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, p. 39, 1955.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

  Joan Halifax

  Helping Others, Compassion, Way

  19 Copy quote

• Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

  Adolf Galland

  Passion, Ties, Track

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dennis Murray is a wonderful Golf Professional who is personable and skillful as an instructor. Dennis helped me work on my golf swing for a full week back in the 80's when I was still playing the PGA Tour. His instruction was great and helped my game very much.

  Jerry Pate

  Golf, Swings, Games

  4 Copy quote

• Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic change, to persevere with calm and patience. How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Teaching

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 03, 2015

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

  Ernest Becker

  Sports, Men, Feds

  11 Copy quote

• Those who have power a) understand that the world is not always a just and fair place and accept that fact, b) understand the bases and strategies for acquiring power, and c) take actions consistent with their knowledge in a skillful way. Skill at anything requires practice, and power skills are no different.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Skills, Practice, Way

  Source: bobmorris.biz

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

  John Stuart Mill

  Important, Devil, Opponents

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fidel Castro outlasted U.S. presidents determined to overthrow him, survived the collapse of the communist bloc that sustained him and outlived many of those who wanted to replace him. For those reasons, he will go down in history as among the world's most skillful politicians, even if his achievements largely die with him.

  Tom Gjelten

  Achievement, President, World

  Source: www.npr.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's very important to realize that every person that you meet, everything that you do, with the right attitude and a little awareness and skillful means - we can transform everything - all our joys and sorrows.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Attitude, Mean, Joy

  15 Copy quote

• The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind of approach we use.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Use, Way

  7 Copy quote

• I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him.

  Conrad Aiken

  Thinking, Splinters, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

  Conrad Aiken

  Play, Two, Piano

  4 Copy quote

• Even where the game is today, cats don't really focus on necessarily what it is that you're saying so when people say, "Oh, you can't rap," I play into the joke. That's why I'll challenge anybody; anybody rapping, let's go just because I know what the art form is and even when you see these battle rappers in here, they're so skillful. It's actually a skill.

  Nick Cannon

  Art, Rap, Cat

  "Nick Cannon Gives Us An Exclusive Look Into The Making Of The New ‘wild ‘n Out’ Mixtape". Interview with Miz Kane, thesource.com. August 2, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?

  Surya Das

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Mean

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those young ones who want to try military jihad are facing a triple issue. First of all, they are missing the point when it comes to understanding what there is at stake from a political viewpoint. How come so many of them are going to Syria and so few to Palestine, even though, when it comes to symbolism, Palestine definitively wins.Then, it is essential to understand that it is not a religious matter. Finally, let's not forget about the recruiters behind their screens. Those ones are quite skillful and well-supported financially.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Religious, Military, Winning

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them.

  Doris Lilly

  Sex, Men

  6 Copy quote

• No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.

  William Bernbach

  Fall, Matter, Gimmicks

  10 Copy quote

• A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Dream, Men

  "Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures".

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology for aspiring tyrants; it also retains its appeal for intellectuals, who have proved equally skillful at rationalizing abuses of power and at exculpating themselves.

  Joseph Sobran

  Tyrants, Abuse, Limits

  7 Copy quote

• A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.

  Laozi

  Character, Men, People

  19 Copy quote

• It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit.

  James Mortimer

  Cheer, People, Brain

  5 Copy quote

• Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.

  Je Tsongkhapa

  Mean, Animal, Benefits

  20 Copy quote