#skill

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#book #composition #habits #i #learning

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#competence #creation #creativity #passion #skill-technique

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. ↗

— Balthasar Gracian

#luck #skill #art

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

#art-of-living #calligraphy #creative #ki #meditation

...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on... ↗

— John Geddes

#skill #writing-advice #art

Successful people play the part of being successful consistently in all that they do. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#success #attitude

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#career #discrimination #empowerment #equality #jobs

Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#buying-and-selling #conversations #customer-service #customers #enterprise

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. ↗

— Michael S. Miller

#selling #selling-skills #business

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#habit #knowledge #skill #change