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"Skill to do comes of doing."
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"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."
"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."
"I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way."
"You can only write well, what you have experienced."
"I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God, and not by your own effort, transfers the thing to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction, but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."
Explore more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
"The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief."
"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
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