26 Skillful Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Harry S Truman

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I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think. Donna Brazile

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

Reputation Difficulty More Greater Glory Pilots Storms Gain Skillful

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. Randi Weingarten

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens

You Yourself People Other Delightful He Takes Most Him Although Becomes His Very Taste Flatterer Skillful Doubtful Companion

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. Daisaku Ikeda

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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. Emo Philips

You Girl Other Top Way Responding Would Tag Head She Skillful Toes Her Conscious Sworn Night

Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense. Isoroku Yamamoto

Saying Enemy Better Single Down Illustration Defense Though Attack Imperial Over Most Without Been Provides Than Disgrace Being Plane Capital Skies Much Shot Should Skillful Graphic Even Damage

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. Mencius

Man Will Stupid Sense Alter Him Bids Sake His Nor Artist Skillful Workman Measures Sufficient Right Desire

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. Sidney Poitier

Truth Legal Words Numerous Bend Liars Out Moral Easy Stay Spin Through Shape Bounds Know Well Occasions Within How Ethical Skillful Use Thereby Extent

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. Ann McKee

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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. Ben Bernanke

I would go on the record with my respect for Mike Madigan, which will probably upset a lot of friends. He's enormously skillful at what he does. The only speakers of any House who survive are the ones who can keep their majority and keep everyone going largely in the same direction. Mike Madigan is superb at that. Fred Eychaner

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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?' Gore Vidal

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

Pride Own Nothing Defense Skillful

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. Molly Ivins

Politics Good Political Says Gifted Guy Exceptionally He Himself Course Always Been Campaign End Bush Really Skillful

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. Rebecca Serle

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

He Very Pitch Skillful Fast Player Thinks

Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce. Sean Bean

Way Real Efficient Vibrant Workforce Creating Skillful

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

Writing Incredibly Books Puzzling Because Intellectually Skillful Challenging Her

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. Stanley Marcus

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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. Tim Ryan

Negotiate Negotiating Easier Majority Lot Want Paul Paul Ryan Us Skillful

When I imagine feminine characters in my songs, they're often bold, strong, passionate, militant, witty, sensual, dangerous. I see those characters as skillful witnesses, figures of change and awakening. Yasmine Hamdan

Change Dangerous Strong Those Characters See Songs Witnesses Witty Feminine Passionate Often Sensual Skillful Militant Figures Bold Awakening Imagine

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