“The most complicated skill is to be simple.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity <br class="br">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.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Harry Harlow (1905–1981) American psychologist
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.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
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
Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
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
“With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,
Forever most divinely in the wrong.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
Satire VI, l. 105.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
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
Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian
Book XXIII, sec. 3
History of Rome
Variant: Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.