335 Quotes About Skill

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

Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil — or perhaps just of folly — when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die

There is no moral outcome of a chess match or a poker game as long as skill and stealth rather than cheating have been used.

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

A spider is slow, but its web catches the fastest flies.

Ten years from now it wont really matter what school you attended, whether online or offline education, free or paid, widely known or not, what will matter most is what you learned, the skills you acquired and how you leveraged it. Use every opportunity to better yourself.

Still, there is something disappearing from the world, something composed of many instances of tradition and skill, or maybe not disappearing, but translating. Maybe culture, like physical matter, doesn’t disappear, but is subject to infinite play, and th e world is a vast workshop for making and remaking everything, including people, and the engine of play is desire…

He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application

Mastering a skill turns a thought into a gift, success is found in presenting that gift to the world.