335 Quotes About Skill

O boatman! Enjoy your skills and touch the river of life in your own unique ways. She will reward you with the treasures that you can't imagine.Those who are in a mad rush of reaching somewhere die empty handed, for the river is endless and time is a trap.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

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

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.