Unskillful Quotes

#1. Often the fairest impression that remains in our minds of a favourite air is one which has arisen out of a jumble of wrong notes struck by unskillful fingers upon a tuneless piano.

Marcel Proust

#2. Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

William Shakespeare

#3. The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#4. I prefer a man who is unskillful, who is an awkward writer, but who has something to say, who is dealing himself one time on every page.

Ralph Keyes

#5. Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to become a child again, how to start existing without mind again, how to be here without any mind.

Rajneesh

#6. So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [ ... ] Learning to live is learning to let go.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#7. Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

Henry Watson Fowler

#8. Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying.

John Earle

#9. Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Alexander Pope

#10. Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

Nicolas Chamfort

#11. Life cannot impose on you that which you aren't willing to accept. Don't let your emotions/feelings push you towards accepting less than what you truly deserve. Believe in yourself, be confident and stay focused. The best lies before and within you...it's all matter of your choice. Choose wisely!

Kemi Sogunle

#12. A country girl can talk her way out of a ticket.

Kellie Pickler

#13. The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.

Bob Dole

#14. By associating Arjuna and Krishna to Nara and Narayana, Vyasa makes them creatures of destiny. Their birth is not random; they are born for a reason.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#15. I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.

Philip Reeve

#16. For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Elizabeth Bowen

#17. We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him. A constitution ignored, laws denied, these were the weapons. America pulled the trigger.

Marita Golden

#18. No two days are the same.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Peace is when we look upon the world together.

A.D. Posey

#20. She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.

Lisa Jewell

#21. In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'

Charlie Pierce