15 Quotes Tagged: skill

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

AMATEUR, n. A public nuisance who mistakes taste for skill, and confounds his ambition with his ability.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.

There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.

It is a talent by itself to pay compliments gracefully and have them ring true. It's an art in itself.

An awkward, feeble, leaky lie is a thing which you ought to make it your unceasing study to avoid; such a lie as that has no more real permanence than an average truth.

You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.

Base 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.

Carlyle said “a lie cannot live.” It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

Every artist was first an amateur.