
“The most complicated skill is to be simple.”
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity
From the poems written in English
On Bertie Ahern, reported in Bertie Ahern http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9804/10/n.ireland.profiles/ahern/ahern.html, CNN World News (1998).
“The most complicated skill is to be simple.”
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity
From the poems written in English
on the parental behavior of monkeys whose social behaviors he had destroyed in their infancy.
as quoted in Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, by Deborah Blum, Perseus Publishing, 2002
“Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Variant: Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.
Source: Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential
Science Fiction on the Titanic, in Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison (eds.) The Year's Best SF 9 (1976), ISBN 0-8600-7894-9, p. 201
“My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.”
Source: Survivor
“With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,
Forever most divinely in the wrong.”
Satire VI, l. 105.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“The best known evil is the most tolerable.”
Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile
Book XXIII, sec. 3
History of Rome
Variant: Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.