Skill

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

African proverbs

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Thomas Sowell

The archer that shoots ill has a lie ready.

Spanish proverbs

The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

G.K. Chesterton

All are not cooks that walk with long knives.

Russian proverbs

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

George Herbert

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Brian Tracy

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Stephen Covey

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

Les Brown