I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
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Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
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On a bell curve, we're all born with certain skills. Some people are beter track runners than others, and on and on, and everyone knows this. But there are some people who are more psychic, more tuned in. If you're too far above average, you can walk down the street, go into information overload, be empathic, be an empath, pick up all the feelings of all the people around you.. And your life can be miserable.
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The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
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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.
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Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.
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.. My writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on..
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He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.
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