#skill

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

— Edward Hopper

#element #essential #imagination #invention #replace

I'm not against gifts that entertain, but I really believe that some of the most valuable gifts that we can give are the things that help us to develop a skill and be entertaining. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#believe #develop #entertain #entertaining #gifts

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#also #away #before #causes #crisis

Masochism is a valuable job skill. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#skill #valuable

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation. ↗

— Paracelsus

#daily #daily bread #grants #labour #must

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

#homer #lies #other #poets #skillfully

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ↗

— William Dunbar

#affairs #apply #becomes #difficult #enable

There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#budget #constraints #deadlines #directing #doubt

Look, you need technical skills to run a company. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#look #need #run #skills #technical

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch. ↗

— Peter Tork

#baseball #bat #coming #cricket #difficult