Top Skill Quotes

The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

Skill Definition

(n.) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.

(n.) Knowledge; understanding.

(n.) The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc.

(n.) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.

(n.) Any particular art.

(v. t.) To know; to understand.

(v. i.) To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.

(v. i.) To make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.

If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.

I don't waste food, water, money, time and talent.

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal...

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating thing...

A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.

A bird will only fall from the sky when it stops believing in its ability to fly, and a fish will only drown in water when it stops believing in its ability to swim.

I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical,...

Failure is your best asset, complacency is your worst liability, and talent is your greatest capital.

Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil — or perhaps just of folly — when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles throu...

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.