Quotes about Skill
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.
- Wendell Berry
It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.
- Wendell Berry
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
- Wendell Berry
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
- Mark Twain
I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was nine, and I was obsessed with it, really. I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent to be able to play the piano professionally.
- Holly Hunter
Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work
- Usain Bolt
Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.
- Albert Einstein
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
- Florence Nightingale
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.
- Brian Tracy
The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.
- Julie Andrews
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
- Henry Ford
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill