10 Quotations Found

Knowledge and ability are tools, not things to show off.

Author: Haruki Murakami | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Concepts, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target […] which others cannot even see.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Concepts, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Author: John Maxwell | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Action | Accomplishment, Advice, Concepts, Personal Improvement, Possibility, Psychology | Behavior

But it seems to me it’s that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be—beyond the possibilities your own family, your own class, your own race, your own neighborhood gives you—which is one of the great human gifts that art affords.

Author: Dana Gioia | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Art

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Action | Accomplishment

Talent is from God – Be Thankful
Praise is from others – Be Humble
Conceit is from ourselves – Be Careful

Author: Tony Dungee | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Attitude

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Author: Lou Holtz | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Attitude, Motivation, Personal Improvement

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Weiler’s Law | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Gratitude

This is an uncomfortable fact for democratic societies. We want to believe that success, in sports and in life, is something we earn, not something we inherit. Natural gifts, and the admiration they inspire, embarrass the meritocratic faith; they cast doubt on the conviction that praise and rewards flow from effort alone. In the face of this embarrassment we inflate the moral significance of striving, … [ Read more ]

Author: Michael J. Sandel | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Culture, Psychology | Behavior

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Author: Tom Stoppard | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Art, Imagination