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.

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.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

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.

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.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

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.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.