Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
Criss JamiTags: individuality talent coolness originality conformity nonconformity independence fool skill trends cool
Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.
Criss JamiTags: music poetry society expression creativity admiration media respect skill beautiful voice songwriting different-perspective underdog graceful
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
Criss JamiTags: talent honesty originality pleasure creativity wit selfishness skill helping-others support envy credit plagiarism copyright copying copyright-infringement
No matter how much experience you have, how many degrees you have, or how well known you have become — there is always something new to learn. Don’t rest on your past experiences. If you do nothing to improve your skills, you won’t stay where you are.
Laura SpencerTags: skill freelancer
Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living.
H.E. DaveyTags: art writing yoga meditation skill creative calligraphy ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do art-of-living
Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr.
Philip LarkinBase words are uttered only by the base
And can for such at once be understood;
But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case
Where the most careful scrutiny is needed
To tell a voice that's genuinely good
From one that's base but merely has succeeded.
Tags: talent poetry writing meaning skill embroidery platitudes baseness
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.
Tahir ShahTags: adventure journey navigation skill expedition
He smiled. "All that stuff can be learned," he said. "What you're doing now, that's instinct. And it counts for a lot.
Jennifer E. SmithThe most complicated skill is to be simple.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom poetry simple literature complicated skill quotes thoughts poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic
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