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Skill Quotes

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."
Pablo Picasso
"The life so short, the craft so long to learn"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work"
Emile Zola
"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery"
Charles Baudelaire
"True ease in writing comes from art not chance as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance"
Alexander Pope
"Only when a person’s skills are fully involved in overcoming a challenge that is just about manageable, so that one forgets everything else, does the activity become effortless and spontaneous"
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
"Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice"
Naval Ravikant
"Power is competence"
Jordan Peterson
"I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do"
Lionel Messi
"Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
Muhammad Ali
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
Salvador Dali
"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."
Helen Keller
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance"
Samuel Johnson
"I've always wanted to be somebody who knows the game, not just the rules"
Mark Wahlberg
"I'll take someone with a passion for anything over someone with talent for everything any day"
Chris Rock
"I’ve practiced so much, I know pretty much what to expect"
Roger Federer