#ski

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

#body-image #bones #dieting #fantasy #feet

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. ↗

— Wilbur Wright

#fly #knowledge #motors #possible #skill

Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking. ↗

— Jacob Young

#back #bring #i #jesse #sally

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . . ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#ginny-weasley #regret #age

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face. ↗

— Terence Young

#cruel #face #fleming #hard #himself

Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing. ↗

— Michael Foley

#multi-tasking #work #age

...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed... ↗

— John Geddes

#bruise #hands #shiny #skin #transparent

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#book #composition #habits #i #learning

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#competence #creation #creativity #passion #skill-technique

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. ↗

— Balthasar Gracian

#luck #skill #art