Quotes About Skill

There is no divinely mandated link between morality and competence.

Whatever we set out to make- a meal, a table, a bed- we should make as well as we can. To do otherwise is spiritless.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves

Voila bien la différence entre le singe et le footballeur. Le premier a trop de mains ou pas assez de pieds pour s'abaisser à jouer au football.

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

Will not the good man, who says whatever he says with a view to the best, speak with a reference to some standard and not at random; just as all other artists, whether the painter, the builder, the shipwright, or any other look all of them to their own work, and do not select and apply at random what they apply, but strive to give a definite form to it?

The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too.

For the fact is that neither the grammarian nor any other person of skill ever makes a mistake in so far as he is what his name implies; they none of them err unless their skill fails them, and then they cease to be skilled artists. No artist or sage or ruler errs at the time when he is what his name implies; though he is commonly said to err.

Pues bien, del mismo modo el malo, si ha de ser un hombre auténticamente malo, debe reali­zar con destreza sus malas acciones y pasar inadvertido con ellas. Y al que se deje sorprender en ellas hay que considerarlo inhábil, pues no hay mayor perfección en el mal que el parecer ser bueno no siéndolo.

tanto con la riqueza como con la indigencia resultan peores los productos de las artes y peores también los que las practican.

Mais on ne saurait mieux le faire qu'avec une

Que sobre todo objeto hay tres artes distintas: la de utilizarlo, la de fabricarlo y la de imitarlo?

Everything that is responsible for creating something out of nothing is a kind of poetry; and so all the creations of every craft and profession are themselves a kind of poetry, and everyone who practices a craft is a poet.

Arts like carpentering, which have an exact measure, are to be regarded as higher than music, which for the most part is mere guess-work.

Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?

You've been the least useless apprentice I've ever had.

When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern the truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

knitters use both hands

will you teach me how to knit?