Sufficiently Skilled Quotes

#1. When he invited me to come for the Winterfair season I wasn't sure if it was hunting or social. and whether I should pack weapons or dresses."
Lady Vorpatril's smile sharpened. "Dresses are weapons, my dear, in sufficiently skilled hands.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#3. Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

Ben Vereen

#4. Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has gathered us to his heart.

Stefan Zweig

#5. Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#6. The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.

Pat Martino

#7. A dream is a slippery thing, plucking and bending and toying with our memories, sometimes acting as a bridge between the living, the loved, and the loved no-longer-living, but more often than not acting as a lesson not quite learned.

Scott Wilbanks

#8. An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.

John McCarthy

#9. I'm tired of playing the brat.

Casey Affleck

#10. At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

George Carlin

#11. The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

Tom Chatfield

#12. Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

Abbie Hoffman

#13. Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer's mind.

Robert Collier

#14. A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

David Rockefeller

#16. If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

Barry Lopez

#17. Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Benjamin Franklin

#18. A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one.

Jeffrey Fry