"If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools."

Skill, Preparation, Work, Quality

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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."

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Swedish Businessman

Skill, Ability, Practice, Learning

"You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues."

Ted Williams, American Athlete

Skill, Play

"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players."

Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian Athlete

Skill, American, Soccer

"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."

Diane Cilento, Australian Actress

Skill, Theory

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

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Skill, Truth, Creativity, Power

"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."

Steve Wozniak, American Businessman

Skill, Engineering, Focus, Programming

"You can only write well, what you have experienced."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Skill, Experience, Truth, Expression, Create

"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."

Mark Twain, American Author

Skill, Spelling, Talent, Effort, Dignity

"The writer identifies the thought behind every written word."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Skill, Writer, Identifies, Thought, Word

"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Skill, Practice, Persistence, Learning

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"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

Action

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

Desire

"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

Man

"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."

Resilience

"It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."

Wisdom

"The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people's failure to recognize their ability."

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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."

"You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues."

"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players."

"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."

"The writer identifies the thought behind every written word."

"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."

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"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."

"It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."

"The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people's failure to recognize their ability."