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skills honey taste
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive. Charles Caleb Colton
skills generations novelists
We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on. Charles Stross
skills perception taoism
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. Alan Watts
skills age lucky
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both. Alan Blinder
skills cards world
I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon. Dave Franco
skills judging-yourself luck
Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself. Carl Icahn
skills class looks
You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out. Billy Joe Saunders
skills mind soil
In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . . Edward Gibbon
skills energy kind
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. David Hockney
long vengeance retribution
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. Charles Dickens
long wit long-time
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. Charles Dickens
long trials hardship
You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope. Charles Stanley
long might serving-god
I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might. Charles Spurgeon
long people giving
I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one. Charles Spurgeon
long eternity endless
Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless! Charles Spurgeon
long doe christ
He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet. Charles Spurgeon
long care doe
Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there. Charles Spurgeon
long effort mind
Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen. Alan Watts
tasks advertising easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. Charles Caleb Colton
tasks generations embrace
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform. Chinua Achebe
tasks reader
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem. Edward Hirsch
tasks illusion principal
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions. Arthur Schnitzler
tasks artistic solutions
That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions. Arne Jacobsen
tasks may architecture
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. Arne Jacobsen
tasks
Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think. Michael Porter
tasks problem states
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly. Anton Chekhov
tasks holy knows
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task. Dietrich Bonhoeffer