Ovid Quotes, Skills Quotes, Luck Quotes

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .

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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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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

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And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

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My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self - my intuition.

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We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Skills Quotes

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Skills Quotes , Inevitable Quotes

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

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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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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Skills Quotes , Understanding 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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It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

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

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And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Mean Quotes , Skills Quotes

When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , War 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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Skill makes love unending.

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

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Skills Quotes , Creative Quotes