Quotes about Skill

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.

We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as "the ten-thousand-hour rule."

You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.

She danced exceptionally well, drew cleverly but hastily, and had a startling facility with words, which she used only in love letters.