Skill Quotes

Most popular skill quotes

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard quote.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

imagination

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window. - George Eliot quote.
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

ability

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill.  Our antagonist is our helper. - Edmund Burke quote.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill.  Our antagonist is our helper.

enemies opposition

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote.
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

old age

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. - John Barth quote.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
John Barth Passionate Virtuosity: The Fiction of John Barth

art

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. - George Herbert quote.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

confidence

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

adversity proverbs

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. - George William Curtis quote.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

sailing

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill.  He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. - Jacob Bronowski quote.
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill.  He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better.
The woodcutter is far better for skill than he is for brute strength.
It is by skill that the sea captain holds his rapid ship
on its course, though torn by winds, over the wine-blue water.
By skill charioteer outpasses charioteer. - Homer quote.
The woodcutter is far better for skill than he is for brute strength.
It is by skill that the sea captain holds his rapid ship
on its course, though torn by winds, over the wine-blue water.
By skill charioteer outpasses charioteer.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect, and passion in their operation. - John Ruskin quote.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect, and passion in their operation.