Skillful Quotes

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. - Charles Dickens

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A smooth sea never makes a skillful sailor. - Unknown

[Since then Mr. Hastert and his fellow GOP leaders have skillfully used their narrow majority to win an amazing number of close votes without having to negotiate much with Democrats. But gradually the fear of losing their majority has also begun leading them to behave more and more like the big-spending Democrats they unseated.] Holding the majority used to be viewed as a means to an end--the end being promoting freedom and limited government... Now, holding the majority seems to be an end in itself--holding onto power for the sake of holding onto power. - Jeff Flake

[Mindfulness meditation] can really make us more effective lawyers... When you're able to . . . gain some distance from your own emotions about what is going on in the room around you . . . then you can deal more skillfully with opposing parties and with clients in a mediation room. - Susan Green

[Miller, whose profile eerily matches early portraits of Byron, skillfully blends his restless passion and moments of sour self-awareness. Byron is caustic about his future wife from the first, noting that he would] like her more if she were less perfect. ... Could she not find one in Jane Austen? - Vanessa Redgrave

(Smith's running style) would be that of a (Hall of Famer) Gale Sayers. Gale could move, he was fluent, he was skillful, he was finesse. He could give you a leg and take it away. . . . This is the type of skill (Smith) has. - James Haynes