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“You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.”

Way Mind Hands Artist Fall Sleep Brain Too Much Dangerous Danger Skills Smart Ease Giants Criticize Facility Dangerous Things

Author:John French Sloan

“Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.”

Littles Individual Given Too Much Development Skills Training Phases Participation Neglected Athletics

Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.”

“Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!”

Men Mind Littles Too Much Air Fashion Human Nature Shapes Skills Dignity Luxury Accomplishment Interiors Elegance

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.”

World Mind Heart Kind Littles Certain Too Much Modern Higher Skills Training Defects Conquest Heart And Mind Acquisition Surveys Higher Education Enlargement

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.”

Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

“She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.”

Heart Stills Feelings Too Much Skills Survival Proof Block Survival Skills

Book:Shadow Bound

Source: Shadow Bound