#skill

Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#practice #sex #skills #cat

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again. ↗

— Criss Jami

#cool #coolness #fool #independence #individuality

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#business #civil #civil society #community #global

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#does #education #know #make #priority

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#any #benefits #capacity #each #full

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#films #humanity #little #manufacture #nothing

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#hard #hard work #possible #power #skill

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#best #composers #diverse #energy #iconoclastic

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#business #business world #came #enjoying #expecting