My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.
No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.
I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
I have a family, a label, and I have responsibilities. It requires discipline and constant development of your skill.
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.
Skill makes love unending.
Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.
You double your intensity with skill.
The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill.
Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit many more clubs than Rangers. Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen
Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it. . . that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.
My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.