Quotes about Skill

The forlorn state of consciousness in our world is due primarily to loss of instinct, and the reason for this lies in the development of the human mind over the past aeon. The more power man had over nature, the more his knowledge and skill went to his head, and the deeper became his contempt for the merely natural and accidental, for all irrational data—including the objective psyche, which is everything that consciousness is not.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

Champions make their own luck.

I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends.

Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.