Skill Quotes
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"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."
"When I win, it’s because I’m skilled. When I lose, it’s because my opponent is lucky. But when I fall in love, it’s because I’m lucky and she’s skilled."
"The most complicated skill is to be simple."
"Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something — it creates a talking point."
"Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away."
"When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can."
"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
"Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted."
"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."
"Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you."
"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."
"They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it."
". . . for any worthwhile martial arts skill to be pragmatic, it has to be done live, otherwise it is of limited or no use in actual combat"
"Be a worthy worker and work will come."
"How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows"
"I continuously see myself on an airplane that has unlimited fuel. I go here and there but can't stop. Always flying over my destination. I've come to realize I must jump off with my parachute on of course. That is how I'm viewing my life right now.Once I find that loophole than I've reached my destination to success."
"There is never a guarantee of survival, no matter your strength or skill or wit. There is only the day you are conceived and the day you die, and all else is a series of moments you either embrace or endure."
"No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class."
"A good swordsman is more important than a good sword."
"I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art."
"loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shapeof a helicopter the same size as the helicopterand that's it's only skilland it isn't good enoughbut it's still amazing."
"Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes — ah, there's a caseWhere the most careful scrutiny is neededTo tell a voice that's genuinely goodFrom one that's base but merely has succeeded."
"Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach."
"Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr."
"There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper..."
"If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it."
"Human strength plus intelligence cannot unlock the door that God is hiding its key."
"You may have good skills and better knowledge, but it is your attitude that will bring people closer to you."
"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."
"We need to apply the rules of 10,000 hours in order to achieve the level of a skill commensurate with the status of a world-class expert"
"The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve."
"Innovation is more attitude than skill."
"Regardless of where you started, there is always the next level. You need to keep leveling up your skills."
"Grow your talents and skills through a consistent practice and progressive learning. Learn to relearn and unlearn. Raise the bar for yourself always."
"The more you express your skills, the more experienced you become and the closer you get to excellence."
"If you ever desire to gain the mastery over any skill and talent, then, you must convert as much time as Sebastian Bach converted."
"Develop your skill around your calling"
"Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder."
"Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living."
"The skills of a leader will determine how excellent he will perform. His attitude will determine how often he will do that."
"I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved."
"What happens when you combine your passion, strength and value? This is the process of creating true art."
"If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge."
"The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told."
"Controversy is a last resort for the talentless."
"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."
"You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have."
"Always let your talent do the talking. Never your tantrums."
"Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'."
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