Skill Quotes

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

~ Edward Hopper

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

~ Criss Jami

Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living.

~ H.e. Davey

What happens when you combine your passion, strength and value? This is the process of creating true art.

~ J.r. Rim

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

~ Twyla Tharp

The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told.

~ Criss Jami

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

~ Criss Jami

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

~ Criss Jami

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

~ Criss Jami

Always let your talent do the talking. Never your tantrums.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.

~ Amit Kalantri

If I lived, she died, and I'd never find someone like her again. If she lived, I would have to die. No matter how many times I ran it through my head, there didn't seem to be another way out. One of us had to die and Rita didn't want to talk it through. She was going to let our skill decide.

~ Hiroshi Sakurazaka

The most thought to keep in mind is that players gain money at the end of each game while spectators lose it for a ticket in order to see the gainful players display their skills. Don't you want to keep watching your dreams or you want to get on the run with them?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

~ Criss Jami

The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too.

~ Plato

See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is during a time of failure we bury a past and resurrect a future. Becoming righteous, discerning, and wise are our most prized possessions and across every cultures-this is the greatest feat of all human life.

~ Stacy Snapp-Killian Aka Stacyk

Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.

~ Sweety Shinde

It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind, alongside a higher calling, with your higher calling being the point man.

~ Criss Jami

Joy is the feeling of one's powers increasing.

~ Matthew B. Crawford

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

~ Criss Jami

Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.

~ Libbie Hawker

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

~ Rafael Sabatini

Challenge each problem you face with purposeful thought and determined action. Resolve that 'every' situation you encounter will make you better, stronger, wiser, more skillful and more loving.

~ Steve Brunkhorst

A general is a specialist insofar as he has master his craft. Beyond that and outside the arbitrary pro and con, he keeps a third possibility intact and in reserve: his own substance. He knows more than what he embodies and teaches, has other skills along with the ones for which he is paid. He keeps all that to himself; it is his property. It is set aside for his leisure, his soliloquies, his nights. At a propitious moment, he will put it into action, tear off his mask. So far, he has been racing well; within sight is the finish line, his final reserves start pouring in. Fate challenges him; he responds. The dream, even in an erotic encounter, comes true. But causally, even here; every goal is a transition for him. The bow should snap rather than aiming the arrow at a finite target.

~ Ernst Jünger

My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

~ Criss Jami

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential.[check for wording] Proper pride says, I'm good at this. Improper pride says, I'm better than you.

~ James A. Owen

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

~ John Fowles

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

~ Criss Jami

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

~ Ernest Hemingway

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

~ Criss Jami

A good listener is one who always pays attention, not to gain, but to learn.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE.

~ Daniel Keyes

Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.

~ Criss Jami

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