The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.