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  1. Tom Stoppard _ Artist Descending a Staircase

    Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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  2. John Fowles _ The Collector

    He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.
    book-quotepaintingcreativityskill

  3. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil - or perhaps just of folly - when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die
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  4. Ian Fleming _ Moonraker

    Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.
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  5. Fulton J. Sheen _ Life of Christ

    To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.
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  6. Stephen R. Covey _ The 7 Habits of Highly

    Habit is the intersection of knowledge {what to do}, skill {how to do}, and desire {want to do}."
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  7. Rick Warren _ The Purpose Driven Life: What

    Repetition is the mother of character and skill.
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  8. A.S. Byatt _ Possession

    Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis's comments on them, and burned them.
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  9. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
    book-quotewritingqualitywriters

  10. Christopher Fowler _ On the Loose

    His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.
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  11. Tahir Shah _ House of the Tiger King: The

    The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.
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  12. Ernest Hemingway _ Death in the Afternoon

    When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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