1,149 Quotes About Skills


  • Author John Milius
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    Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

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  • Author John Milton
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    When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

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  • Author John Murphy
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    The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

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  • Author Jon Meacham
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    An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure.

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  • Author Judith Martin
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    Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.

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  • Author Kevin Mitnick
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    It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

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  • Author Maimonides
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    It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.

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  • Author Maria Montessori
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    Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

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