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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
Perseverance
African Proverb

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Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
Poetry and Poets
Aristotle

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Lies and Lying
Aristotle

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Work
Brooks Atkinson

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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
Learning
Tony Buzan

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
Economy and Economics
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Adversity
English Proverb

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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Skill
Epicurus

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Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
Learning
Benjamin Franklin

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A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Catholicism
Thomas Fuller

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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Disease
Thomas Fuller

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
Work, Hard
James A. Garfield

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Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
Secrets
Daniel C. Gelman

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
Arts and Artists
Eric Gill

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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Luck
Baltasar Gracian

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Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
Ask
Robert Half

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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Skill
George Herbert

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Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Perfection
Doug Horton

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Virtue
David Starr Jordan

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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Ability
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.
Temperament
Martin Luther

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Skill makes love unending.
Sex
Ovid

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Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.
Skill
Mal Pancoast

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Skill
John Ruskin

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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Ability
John Ruskin

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun