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Straight roads do not make skillful drivers. — Paulo Coelho

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. — Madame Roland

Love is the skillful audacity required to share an inner life — Gertrude Stein

It's noble to be skilled, but ultimately people pay for solutions your skills can provide not the skills you possess — Bernard Kelvin Clive

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride. — Helen Hunt Jackson

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself? — Augustine Of Hippo

Even the most skillful deceit is wasted on a man's mother. — John Whitbourn

When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave. — Orison Swett Marden

Damn, Ruby," Lexi adds, "I didn't know you were so skillful with giant balls. — Renee Ericson

No one had ever had such a friend - so affectionate, so loyal, and so skillful. — E.B. White

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. — Joseph Addison

Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air. — Pele

Wisdom is an artful method - a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge. — Gregory Koukl

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master. — Benjamin Franklin

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. — Adolf Hitler

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting. — Sun Tzu

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven. — Pope Paul VI

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. — George William Curtis

Mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose. — Eugene Wigner

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it. — Anne Waldman

The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels ... — Laozi

Therefore, the skillful commander imposes his will on the enemy by making the enemy come to him instead of being brought to the enemy. — Sun Tzu

Hence the skillful fighter puts himself into a position which makes defeat impossible, and does not miss the moment for defeating the enemy. — Sun Tzu

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging. — Sophie Hannah

First of all," said Serafim, "there are no advanced skills; there is only skillful movement. — Dan Millman

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well. — Joan Halifax

The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching of the Awakened. — Gautama Buddha

8. The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, neither are his supply-wagons loaded more than twice. [Once war is declared, he will — Sun Tzu

Understand that you can't achieve your dreams if you don't connect with people who guide you to improve on upon the skills you have. — Israelmore Ayivor

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well. — John Szarkowski

People are so skillful in their ignorance! — Paramahansa Yogananda

...to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities. — William Makepeace Thackeray

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom? — John Stuart Mill

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful. — Sun Tzu

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis. — William Arthur Ward

No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk. — Alan Greenspan

It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be. — Andres Segovia

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful. — Richard Gere

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. — Epicurus

To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform — Rowan Atkinson

A skillful soldier is not violent, an able fighter does not rage, a mighty conqueror does not give battle, a great commander is a humble man — Lao-Tzu

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective. — Gretchen Rubin

Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use. — Will Advise

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. — Edward Hopper

Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce. — Sean Bean

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons. — Gene Tunney

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. — Eric Hoffer

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master. — Thomas Jefferson

I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skillful enough at it all, we'll see. — Richard C. Armitage

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings — John Stuart Mill

Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." Harry S. Truman — Shar McBee

More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words. — Andrew Weil

Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men. — Solomon

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

For all their reputation for chattiness and storytelling, the Irish I knew were so skillful with words there was sometimes no need for them at all. — Camille DeAngelis

Writing is the skillful expression of feelings through the vehicle of words — Christian Michael

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer. — Alexandre Dumas

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things. — Jim Rohn

Scusi mia bella*, but it runs in the blood of all Italians to be skillful lovers. So you have to get used to this. — Olga Goa

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire. — L. Frank Baum

We are designed boundaryless and limitless in what we can achieve. Unfortunately, we are also skillful in building boundaries and limits... — Assegid Habtewold

Be skillful in speech, that you may be strong. — Merikare

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. — P. J. O'Rourke

It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them. — Doris Lilly

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general. — Winston Churchill

Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive. — B.H. Liddell Hart

It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all. — Ed Parker

A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence. — Dalai Lama

Be practical,
be skillful,
be teachable,
and you will be successful. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen. — Henry David Thoreau

People are attracted to leaders who are skillful in motivating them to become more, do more, and achieve more... — Assegid Habtewold

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous. — Alexander Pope

I've never met a woman so beautiful and innocent, yet so skillful she steals your mind. I'm afraid you're going to be unforgettable."

-Lynx — Janelle Taylor

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men. — Richard Hakluyt

The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking. — Allan Lokos

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive. — B.F. Skinner

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech
this is the greatest blessing. — Gautama Buddha

Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble. — Honore De Balzac