Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
Robert Half

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere

With care, and skill, and cunning art,
She parried Time's malicious dart,
And kept the years at bay,
Till passion entered in her heart
and aged her in a day!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Herodotus

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.
Philip Sidney

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
William Bernbach

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Douglas Horton