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Education for All People and Education for Life
Quotes about skill
A collection of quotes on the topic of skill, use, doing, people.
Quotes about skill
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life

Quote from a letter of Raphael Sanzio to pope Leo X (c. 1519); Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, cod. it. 37b; translated as 'The Letter to Leo X by Raphael and Baldassare Castiglione, c.1519', by Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks, Palladio's Rome: A Translation of Andrea Palladio's Two Guidebooks to Rome; Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006, pp. 179-92

Letters published in the Buffalo News (10 June 2001)
2000s

Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Profile at North American Bangladesh Info Center http://www.bongoz.com/people/yunus.html

<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span>
From Prose

Variant translations
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities... It is best to win without fighting.
Source: The Art of War, Chapter III · Strategic Attack

Source: The Art of War, Chapter VI · Weaknesses and Strengths

“Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent”
Source: The 48 Laws of Power

“Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.”
Freedom and the control of men (1955/1956) American Scholar, 25 (1), 47-65.

In Amid Amidi The John Kricfalusi Interview, Part 2 http://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/the-john-kricfalusi-interview-part-2-434.html, Cartoon Brew, 31 August 2004.

“It needs more skill than I can tell
To play the second fiddle well.”
The Salt-Cellars http://books.google.com/books?id=CmAUAAAAYAAJ&q=%22It+needs+more+skill+than+I+can+tell+To+play+the+second+fiddle+well%22&pg=PA284#v=onepage (1885)

“A skilled commander seeks victory from the situation and does not demand it of his subordinates.”
Variant: The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.
Source: The Art of War, Chapter V · Forces

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.”
Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

1962, Rice University speech

“Raoul: Age and treachery!
Neal: Youth and skill!”
Source: Trickster's Choice

“Do not yearn, O my soul, for immortal life!
Use to the utmost
the skill that is yours.”
Pythian 3, line 61-62.
Variant translation: Seek not, my soul, immortal life, but make the most of the resources that are within your reach.


1900s, First Annual Message to Congress (1901)

Journal entry (1 May 1915)
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916

2015, Town Hall meeting with Young Leaders of the Americas (April 2015)

Lecture I, Section 1.
Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)

2015, Town Hall meeting with Young Leaders of the Americas (April 2015)

On developing social skills , The Return of Courtney Love (2006)
2006–2013

Sukirti Kandpal on playing a journalist in Dilli Wali Thakur Gurls https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/Why-Sukirti-Kandpal-is-chasing-the-media/articleshow/46665042.cms/

[Five Tracts of Hasan Al-Banna: A Selection from the Majmu at Rasail al-Imam al-Shahid Hasan al-Banna, University of California Press, 156] translated and annotated by Charles Wendell.

Source: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 159

“Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System” (2011)

interview with journalist Nigel Muir in 1967, talking about the dangers of spearfishing
As prime minister
Source: The Life and Death of Harold Holt, p. 273.

Preface to the 2004 edition of Dreams from My Father, p. x
2004

Letter to Woodburn Harris (25 February-1 March 1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 487
Non-Fiction, Letters

Helen D. Hume (2010) The Art Teacher's Book of Lists. p. 304.

2015, Remarks to the People of Africa (July 2015)

The Problem with Programming (Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup), MIT Technology Review, November 28, 2006, Jason Pontin, 2007-11-15 http://technologyreview.com/Infotech/17831/page3/,

Address to his household, Yverdon, Switzerland, on his seventy-second birthday (1818-01-12)

2015, Town Hall meeting with Young Leaders of the Americas (April 2015)

Robert Burns Woodward, "Art and Science in the Synthesis of Organic Compounds: Retrospect and Prospect," in Pointers and Pathways in Research (Bombay:CIBA of India, 1963).

Unpublished (and probably unsent) letter to the Providence Journal (13 April 1934), quoted in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy, edited by J. T. Joshi, pp. 115-116
Non-Fiction, Letters

Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 465

Source: 1940s, Frontiers in group dynamics II, 1947, p. 153.

Speech after the London Bridge attack (4 June 2017)

2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)
Quoted by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Colorado Outward Bound's 25th anniversary in 1987; as cited in Leadership the Outward Bound Way (2007), ISBN 159485033X.

Comment to General Henry Knox on the delay in assuming office (March 1789)
1780s

Quote from his writings Thoughts on Art, Caspar David Friedrich; as cited in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 32
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1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties

2013, Commencement Address at Ohio State University (May 2013)
Dave Ulrich in: Dan Schawbel. " Dave Ulrich on the Future of Human Resources http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2012/07/18/dave-ulrich-on-the-future-of-human-resources/#79dd32073b0a," in Forbes, July 18, 2012

1940s, Philosophy for Laymen (1946)

“How divine scripture should be interpreted,” On First Principles, book 4, chapter 2, § 2, Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 69
On First Principles

Source: Econometrics, 1951, p. 3; Cited in: Econometrica: journal of the Econometric Society. (1953) p. 36

“Let the orator whom I propose to form, then, be such a one as is characterized by the definition of Marcus Cato, a good man skilled in speaking. But the requisite which Cato has placed first in this definition—that an orator should be a good man—is naturally of more estimation and importance than the other.”
Sit ergo nobis orator quem constituimus is qui a M. Catone finitur vir bonus dicendi peritus, verum, id quod et ille posuit prius et ipsa natura potius ac maius est, utique vir bonus.
Book XII, Chapter I, 1; translation by Rev. John Selby Watson
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)

Section 103
2010s, 2013, Evangelii Gaudium · The Joy of the Gospel

Denis Savard, interview in Tim Sassone (October 11, 2008) "Can Hawks close gaps on Ovechkin?", Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois), p. 4.
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The Princess of Wales' speech on care in the community (17 November 1993) http://www.settelen.com/diana_care_in_the_community.htm

"Professions for Women"
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)

First Annual Address, to both House of Congress (8 January 1790)
1790s

2014, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall Speech (November 2014)

(ca. 1716) A Catalogue of the Portsmouth Collection of Books and Papers Written by Or Belonging to Sir Isaac Newton https://books.google.com/books?id=3wcjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR18 (1888) Preface
Also partially quoted in Sir Sidney Lee (ed.), The Dictionary of National Biography Vol.40 http://books.google.com/books?id=NycJAAAAIAAJ (1894)

Source: * The New York Exhibition of Independent Artists ** The Craftsman ** 1910 ** https://books.google.com/books?id=Af84fBmzmVYC&pg=PA423&lpg=PA423&dq=Art+cannot+be+separated+from+life.#v=onepage&q=Art%20cannot%20be%20separated%20from%20life.&f=false.

Still, A. T., Dr. A.T. Still's Department, Journal of Osteopathy, p. 413-414. https://www.atsu.edu/museum/subscription/pdfs/JournalofOsteopathyVol4No91898February.pdf/ Note: The first ASO class had 5 women members..

Source: Quest for prosperity: the life of a Japanese industrialist. 1988, p. 58