Skillful Quotes

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he’s skillful not to hurt anybody. He’s skillful.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.

It’s a lot easier to negotiate and be skillful from the majority. I want Paul Ryan negotiating with us. I don’t want to have to negotiate with Paul Ryan.

No matter how skillful you are, you can’t invent a product advantage that doesn’t exist. And if you do, and it’s just a gimmick, it’s going to fall apart anyway.

As goods become more standardized – and mass production has that effect, standardizing product – the distinguishing factor between one store and another is going to be how skillful stores are in satisfying customers and making it a pleasant experience instead of a hostile experience.

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense – on the order of Mike Gibbons.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Agatha Christie’s writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.

Rove, of course, is an exceptionally good, exceptionally skillful campaign guy, and Bush himself is really gifted at the political end of politics. But he’s always been, as he says, misunderestimated.

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back.

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.

Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors like Jane O’Connor and Jon Scieszka.

Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career – novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.

I know I’m skillful and capable of finishing fights.

From its skillful editing to its out-of-control budget and its relentless marketing, Mr. Obama’s team played a different game at a different level than Sen. John McCain and his traditionalist staff.

Don’t get me wrong, Anthony Joshua is Anthony Joshua, but he’s not as skillful and as talented as me, you know? I’m just speaking facts.

Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He’s very skillful.

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: ‘Why, that’s us up there, and aren’t we – for all our little foibles – pretty nice guys and gals?’

I’d like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I’m skillful enough at it all, we’ll see.

Deco is a very skillful player. He thinks very fast on the pitch.

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

I definitely agree about the future of youth football being flag. There’s just more and more evidence that the youth brain is particularly susceptible to the injury – thin necks, big heads. They’re not as coordinated; they’re not as skillful. For many reasons, I think the wave of the future is flag football for youth.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

The Fed needs an approach that consolidates the gains of the Greenspan years and ensures that those successful policies will continue – even if future Fed chairmen are less skillful or less committed to price stability than Mr. Greenspan has been.