Plato Quotes, Practice Quotes, Skills Quotes

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Skills Quotes , Giving Quotes

To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Simple Quotes , Skills Quotes

People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

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Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

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The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

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To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills

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In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Play Quotes , Skills Quotes

So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?

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....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Skills Quotes , Ease Quotes

When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.

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It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Skills Quotes

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Skills Quotes

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Skills Quotes , Genius Quotes

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

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When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.

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May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Skills Quotes

The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America... Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should.

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There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

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Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Art Quotes , Skills Quotes