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The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producin...

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ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTI...

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Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adap...

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He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend toge...

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

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep try...

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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his ge...

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To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and diss...

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The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar...

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Force has no place where there is need of skill.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that ...

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He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at ...

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These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of th...

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose fr...

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Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of co...

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The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why...

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Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why...

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Matthieu RicardHappiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that...

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What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation...

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Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connoll...

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Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partl...

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The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power ...

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Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abus...

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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape he...

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Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportu...

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When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer strea...

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'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picni...

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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what ...

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Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes —...

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There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skil...

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Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of S...

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Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand al...

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There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

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Baltasar GraciánThe Art of Worldly Wisdom

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. O...

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The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can ...

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Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology ...

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We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection