"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."

Skill, Obstacles, Power, Navigation

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"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."

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"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Skill, Truth, Originality, Power

"True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Skill, Giving, Learning, Development, Gift

"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Skill, Improvement, Potential, Help

"Your expertise elevates your impressions to an entirely new realm. When you have paid the price, earned the right, and done the homework to be called an expert, people will be impressed."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Skill, Expertise, Power, Success, Truth

"You only need enough experience to master the art."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Skill, Experience, Master, Art

"Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Skill, Habit, Improvement, Wit

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very, ' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

Mark Twain, American Author

Skill, Writing, Editing, Language, Advice

"Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Skill, Cooking, Practice, Patience, Presence

"You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades."

Annie Dillard, American Author

Skill, Focus, Constraint, Observation, Creativity

"Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Skill, Strength, Control, Power

Explore more quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

Simplicity

"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

Health

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

History

"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

Metaphor

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Environment

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

Innovation

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

Friendship

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

Identity

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

Faith

"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."

Focus