The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball football soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

Business labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

If you're lucky as you get older you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill it's the best possible substitute for it.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

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

As an actor there is room for a certain amount of creativity but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina skill or ability to write a novel but I'd love to write short stories and poetry because those are my two passions.

And so at the age of thirty I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources had trained me with skill and patience and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

You know writing is really difficult and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others so much and I envy it.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.