"To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery."

Skill, Mastery, Writing, Discipline, Editing

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"It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Skill, Work, Observation, Knowledge

"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

"Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only."

Robert Shea, American Author

Skill, Variety

"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

"You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies."

Libba Bray, American Author

Skill, Creativity, Passion, Learning

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

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Skill, Preparation, Work, Quality

"You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Skill, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

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

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Skill, Practice, Persistence, Learning

"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

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"To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides."

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"The game itself is bigger than the winning."

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"Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing."

Expression

"Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered."

Life

"We don't know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side."

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"His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time."

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"Disease often comes with a smiling face."

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"It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish."

"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."

"Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only."

"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."

"You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies."

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

"You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner."

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

"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."

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

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"To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides."

"The game itself is bigger than the winning."

"Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing."

"Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered."

"We don't know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side."

"History will be erased in the universal purgatory."

"Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art."

"A versifier passes through the sound, sounds go through a poet."

"His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time."

"Disease often comes with a smiling face."