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“LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.”

Firsts Humans Art Beautiful Pieces Skills Evidence Very Good Beautiful Things Formation

Book:Selections and Essays

Source: Selections and Essays

“It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.”

Knows Waiting Business Know How Pieces Skills Luck Guides Good Luck Luck And Skill

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.”

Years Important Matter Process Interest Support Learning Pieces Alive Childhood Middle Subjects Particular Skills Findings Technique Related Glowing Subject Matter

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.”

Problem Together Forget Pieces Civilization Skills Western Contemporary Splits Smallest Components Back Together Western Civilization Together Again Back Together Again Dissection

Author:Alvin Toffler

“I spent maybe a week all day every day working on the wall, my first legal wall because I was just so excited and it was nice to be able to chill and relax and work on the piece instead of doing it quickly and running from the cops or whatever. Then it just really grew from there. Other people saw it and appreciated the skill.”

People Firsts Running Able Saws Pieces Nice Week Wall Grew Skills Excited Relax Cop Appreciated Chill

Author:Alec Monopoly

“The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake.”

Reason Pieces Skills Naked Cake Negotiating

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Believe Use Problem Kids I Believe Parent Morning Issues Pieces Doors Air Figures Skills Capable Tools Balls

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever skills it takes to make a good piece of theater seem mysterious to me right now.”

Ideas Different Seems Pieces New York Skills Theater Excited Mediums Mysterious Frightening

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.”

Way Children Shows Seems Interest Pieces Teaching Subjects Skills Areas Guides Entrepreneurship Teaching Children

Author:Naveen Jain

“Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.”

Ifs Done Whole Form Process Pieces Effects Products Skills Photography Mass Enormous Propaganda Devices Documents Work Done Agitation

Author:John Heartfield

“With 'Hail, Caesar!' it was about all the skill sets I had to learn, but each movie requires a different way of working. You're a piece in a new world, and there is always a difficult part within that world. For me, it's not consistent from movie-to-movie, each film has a central challenge.”

World Way Different Film Difficult Challenges Pieces Skills Different Ways Consistent New World Hail

Author:Alden Ehrenreich

“I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still be a useless glued version of its former self, which could show only fragmented reflections of anyone looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.”

Ifs Mean Stills Self Shows Together Pieces Broken Skills Reflection Mirrors Glasses Tiny Versions Former Useless Cracks Chips Shattered Back Together Fragmented Broken Glass

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.”

Christian Values Silence Pieces Skills Profound Philosopher Arguing Embarrassed Torn Martyr Dialectics Alexandria Old Values

Book:Dream of Scipio

Source: Dream of Scipio

“Quietly Sophronia added, "And the soot on my dress, sir?" "I didn't see anything." Professor Braithwope smiled down at her, showing a small hint of fang. Sophronia grinned back. "I'm glad we understand each other, sir." The vampire looked out into the night. "This is the right finishing school for you, isn't it, whot?" "Yes sir, I think it might very well be." "A piece of advice, Miss Temminnick?" "Sir?" "It is a great skill to have friends in low places. They, too, have things to teach you." "Now, sir, I thought you didn't see any soot.”

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Author:Gail Carriger

“Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.”

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Author:Mark Van Doren

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