#skill

Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself. ↗

— Rebecca Murphy

#inspirational #people-skills #tolerance #inspirational

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#people-skills #self-interest #intelligence

Some were made with skill and intelligence Some with passion and charm But they, they were raw, and strived to remain so… ↗

— Pearl Pandya

#intelligence #passion #raw #skill #intelligence

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance. ↗

— Mas'udi

#chance #fortune #luck #skill #wealth

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance. ↗

— Criss Jami

#envious #envy #excellence #greatness #jealous

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something. ↗

— John Green

#love #people #skills #love

Happy New Year, Julie.” “Happy New Year, Matty.” She turned off the television and rolled onto her side. “Matty, I have another question for you.” “Uh-oh.” “Are you a skilled lover?” “And that concludes our evening chat. ↗

— Jessica Park

#new-years #skilled-lover #love

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again. ↗

— Criss Jami

#cool #coolness #fool #independence #individuality

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #said #skill #storytelling

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#ahead #enough #extend #know #sense