Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Skills Quotes, Genius Quotes

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

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There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

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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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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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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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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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

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Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

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The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.

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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

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Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

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But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills

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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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Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

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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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