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"I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer."
"Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do so is their TAO. But it is not from extensive study that this may be known, nor by dialectical skill that his may be made clear. The true sage will have none of these."
"Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."
"I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome."
"People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality."
"All things require skill but an appetite."
"The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces."
"Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right."
"Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy"
"Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument."
"I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge."
"Reading is a majority skill but a minority art."
"Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader."
"Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills."
"Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?"
"Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result."
"Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time."
"To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable."
"My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills."
"Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year."
