Top 225 Skillful Quotes & Sayings

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

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

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

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

The teaching on karma starts with the principle that people experience happiness and sorrow based on a combination of their past and present intentions. If we act with unskillful intentions either for ourselves or for others, we’re going to suffer. If we act with skillful intentions, we’ll experience happiness. So if we want to be happy, we have to train our intentions to always be skillful.

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

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.

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

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.

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

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

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

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

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

The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.

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.

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

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.

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.

I know I'm skillful and capable of finishing fights.

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

Be skillful in speech, that you may be strong.

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.

Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

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.

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

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

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

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

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

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

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

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

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

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

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

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

No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.

I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by the skillful use of the force of the wind, and the steering, in any direction, is the result of skillful manoeuvres; so that by a moderate wind a man can, with an aeroplane, un- provided with any motor whatever, rise up into the air and direct himself at will, even against the wind itself.

You can ensure the success of your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. Therefore, that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

People are so skillful in their ignorance!

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

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

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

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

The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back.

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

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

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

Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].

A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.