Skills Quotes - Page 15

• Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Crafts

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2015). “Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

  Bergen Evans

  Writing, Confusion, Obscurity

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• In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the gods to man for the purpose of improving the condition of life. In a real sense, photography has fulfilled the Greek ideal of art; it should not only improve the photographer, but also improve the world.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Art, Real

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• Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.

  John Motson

  Football, Able

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• As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Dirty, Unique

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and have the skills to symbolize visually the four-dimensional structure of the universe.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Growth, Degrees

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

  Bliss Perry

  Teacher, Book, Teaching

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• Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

  Confucius

  Teacher, People, Waiting

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• A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their lives. By associating together for public discussion, citizens learn the skills necessary for the health of a democratic public; listening persuading, arguing, compromising, and seeking common ground. When these skills are nurtured within the institutions of a democratic public, citizens educate themselves in order to make informed political decisions.

  Kevin Mattson

  Order, Issues, Decision

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• Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing in this, affirmative action also fails to help blacks achieve true equality with whites - the ultimate measure of which is parity in skills and individual competence. Without this underlying parity there can never be true equality in employment, income levels, rates of home ownership, educational achievement and the rest.

  Shelby Steele

  Educational, Home, Achievement

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• He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

  Samuel Tuke

  Thinking, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, Mother, Art

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• No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Exercise, Reflection

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.

  Josh Lewsey

  Team, World, Lessons

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• It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

  Bruce Lee

  Learning, Growth, Firsts

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• Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero.

  Ghulam Nabi Azad

  People, Superhero, Poor

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• Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

  Feist

  Writing, Way, Fortunate

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• Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

  Brian Tracy

  Accomplishment, Goal, Masters

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 14, 2013

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• Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.

  F.X. Toole

  Pain, Men, Boxing

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• Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Humanity, Opening Your Mind, Objective Truth

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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• There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it.

  Neko Case

  Depression, People, Excellence

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• Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market

  Tom DeLay

  Business, Ideas, People

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• The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Running, Worst Enemy, Doe

  Uell Stanley Andersen (1954). “The key to power and personal peace”

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• This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow. If you have knowledge and business linked together you will grow well, you go further down the innovative path and actually you create more and more jobs. Those jobs will only be available for people with skills but they will be real sustainable employments. That is how important innovation is.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Jobs, Real, College

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• The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has the financial planning skills of a college sophomore.

  Conan O'Brien

  College, Government, Two

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