#skillful

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. ↗

— Russell Baker

#emma #especially #figures #flamboyant #good

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#becomes #companion #delightful #doubtful #flatterer

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ↗

— Epictetus

#gain #glory #greater #more #pilots

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. ↗

— Epicurus

#pilots #reputation #skillful #storms #tempest

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#ambition #been #boxing #defense #gibbons

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#handle #kind #language #practice #skillfully

When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the first round. I've learned to be patient, skillful in the ring. At the same time, I wanted to prove to other boxers that you can take off this killer instinct stuff, you can be a great athlete, a great boxer, and love your brother. ↗

— George Foreman

#be patient #better #boxer #boxers #brother

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#extremely #heaven #hell #life #make

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#element #essential #imagination #invention #replace

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

#homer #lies #other #poets #skillfully