Quotes About Prowess

I love that idea of mastery.

The way that I play is, I'm in the driver's seat.

How clever am I? I'm really quite clever. I mean, look, I've got a first-class degree from Oxford.

I could probably use some tips from a vocal trainer or something about breathing, but we all know it's not about technical prowess.

In my experience, you mon-keigh make a great many claims when it comes to your own prowess, awarding yourselves title after title, your psyches awash with the hope that such posturing will intimidate your foes." "Undeniably true, though that seems harsh criticism from a species that attaches poetic nonsense like" The Storm of Silence" and "The Cry of the Wind" to its demigods, no?

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Wherever a great heart throbs and rages, wherever a liberating thought flares up, there Athena is present, summoned rather by heroic readiness than by humble supplication. From her own lips we hear that she is attracted by prowess, not by good will or devotion to her person. The men who can most surely rely upon her offer her no unusual reverence, and it is unthinkable that her assistance should ever be motivated by the exemplary obedience of her protégés.

His skills were supreme now, and he used them supremely.

It does take a special something. Whatever that 'something' is, I'm reliably told I have it in spades..." -Rodimus

Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.

Pendergast moved with a feline grace, using the waxing moon as his only source of light

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

The martyr is the exact opposite of the pagan hero personified in the Greek and Germanic heroes … For the pagan hero, a man's worth lay in his prowess in attaining and holding onto power, and he gladly died on the battlefield in the moment of victory.

Operation Warp Speed should fill us with pride about American prowess and ingenuity. It is a showcase of our scientific, military and industrial might.

I won a robotics championship when I was 13.

Chef Michel Richard is always at the top of his game.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Despite the ongoing risks, during great swaths of its mostly charmed 142 years, Goldman Sachs has been both envied and feared for having the best talent, the best clients, and the best political connections, and for its ability to alchemize them into extreme profitability and market prowess.

It requires more prowess and greatness of spirit to obey God faithfully, than to command an army of men; to be a Christian than a captain.