Skillfully Quotes

#1. Saul is a devout believer only in himself, and he was convinced that the religious faith of others, if manipulated skillfully, was an excellent path to the power he sought. He was studying religions of the world in order to pick up tips on how to build his own.

Rysa Walker

#2. The boy Weneluke wove hand patterns with a string, working skillfully into abstract designs on all eight fingers: one of these represented a man and woman facing each other, and, by manipulating each sex, he arrived at a nice parody of copulation.

Peter Matthiessen

#3. Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

#4. Religious work can be done by natural men without the gifts of the Spirit, and it can be done well and skillfully.

A.W. Tozer

#5. Make the earth a dwelling place. Cultivate the heart and mind. Practice benevolence. Stand by your word. Govern with equity. Serve skillfully. Act in a timely way, without contentiousness, free of blame.

Lao-Tzu

#6. If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

Jim Rohn

#7. If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?

Jim Rohn

#8. Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle.

#9. Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#10. No, Don Camillo; you didn't exactly steal it. Peppone had two cigars in his pocket. Peppone is a Communist. He believes in sharing things. By skillfully relieving him of one cigar, you only took your fair share.

Giovannino Guareschi

#11. Lead competently.
Lead productively.
Lead skillfully.
Lead excellently.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove
of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This
event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released
upon the masses in 2012.

Phil Collen

#13. Hurt people hurt people more skillfully. An expert heartbreaker knows the effect of each incision. The blade slips in barely noticed, the pain and the apology delivered at the same time.

Anonymous

#14. The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

Jose Saramago

#15. Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices.

John Friend

#16. Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it.

Paulo Freire

#17. It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully.

Jeff Cooper

#18. The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

Leopold Schefer

#19. I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance.

Gary Hayden

#20. A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. Fear is hugely contagious. Used skillfully by politicians looking to manipulate voters, it can become toxic and capable of infecting more than just a few.

Mike Barnicle

#22. Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.

Henepola Gunaratana

#23. All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby ... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.

T. Berry Brazelton

#24. The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

Frederic Bastiat

#25. John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.

David Pietrusza

#26. From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.

Aberjhani

#27. The Secrets of' series of books by psychotherapist D. U. Sivri are designed to give you a better outlook on life. The author is an expert and skillfully gets you thinking about your life and how it is unfolding. He challenges you and gives you the tools to build a better life.

D.U. Sivri

#28. To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.

William Henry Willimon

#29. If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.

Charlie Munger

#30. The pride of the digital age is not just in the possession of innovative tools but the ability to skillfully connect with humans behind them

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#31. Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and moves, the other teases and skips away, only to dart forward later and strike a telling blow.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#32. Every trial that ever burdened a mortal man, every temptation that ever stormed a human heart, and every blessing that ever delighted a needy soul have been skillfully designed by the Creator for one purpose: to draw men to Himself.

Jim Berg

#33. It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#34. The key to any lasting contentment is learning to see and accept reality for what it is and then acting skillfully, rather than reacting when reality fails to conform to our expectations.

Bhava Ram

#35. If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.

Jim Rohn

#36. And so Ethan and I orbit each other. Get on with things. Learn the art of pretending. Hone our craft to lie to others as skillfully as we lie to ourselves.

Leisa Rayven

#37. Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

George Will

#38. A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.

John Milton

#39. In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class as they affected the formation of African American identity. Leslie Harris has made a major contribution to our understanding of the black experience.

Eric Foner

#40. The key to lying skillfully is never lie to yourself.

Tammara Webber

#41. Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement - the art of living.

H.E. Davey

#42. I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.

Francesca Marciano

#43. History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.

Charles Lindbergh

#44. Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Francis Bacon

#45. A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully
and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

W. H. Auden

#46. The sword of the Spirit - the Bible - is the weapon God has provided for us to use in this battle between truth and deception. Make it a priority to wield that sword skillfully.

Billy Graham

#47. A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Honore De Balzac

#48. The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

Laozi

#49. In this life, the proper way of living is to make use of both joy and suffering. They are both merely stimuli that the world presents to us. So by blending them skillfully within you, you can use them in a completely different way. If you want to be steeped in evil, you mustn't forget good.

Fuminori Nakamura

#50. Everywhere and continually it is in your power to be reverently content with your present circumstance, to behave to men who are present with you according to right and to handle skillfully the present impression, that nothing you have not mastered may cross the threshold of the mind.

Marcus Aurelius

#51. Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds

E. E. Cummings

#52. The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

Alice Miller

#53. No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability
did he win?

Charles Lever

#54. Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak through a prolong period of flood. We must work our talents out and work them out skillfully and then our rainbow of excellence will show.

Israelmore Ayivor

#55. Advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

Ann Bridge

#56. You are unaware of your theory-in-use. Part of what makes your theory-in-use so powerful is that it operates quickly, skillfully, and effortlessly.

Roger Schwarz

#57. Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.

Gina Greenlee

#58. A faithful worship leader magnifies the greatness of God in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit by skillfully combining God's Word with music, thereby motivating the gathered church to proclaim the gospel, to cherish God's presence, and to live for God's glory.

Bob Kauflin

#59. He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

Sallust

#60. Luke Archer kissed like he played baseball - intently, skillfully, and like he'd spent his whole life practicing for this one moment in time.

Nicole Williams

#61. You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

Booker T. Washington

#62. Then the truth began to reveal itself, as it always does. truth seeks the light of day,needs it just like we need air, and so it finds ways to seep out of the sturdiest. most skillfully hidden boxes
even those buried deeply in the hearts of the dead.

Wendy Webb

#63. The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.

Franz Werfel

#64. Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.

Albert Schweitzer

#65. Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Eugene H. Peterson

#66. When we contextualize faithfully and skillfully, we show people how the baseline "cultural narratives" of their society and the hopes of their hearts can only find resolution and fulfillment in Jesus.

Timothy J. Keller

#67. To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Charles Baudelaire

#68. Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully

Albert Bandura

#69. Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Louis Nizer

#70. To be a leader is to communicate constantly, skillfully, intentionally, and strategically

Albert Mohler