Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Laurence J. Peter
The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
Earl Pitts
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
John G. Pollard
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely
the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament
and condition.
John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
John Ruskin
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of
cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural
abilities.
Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
Thomas Somerville
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a
blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are
left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Sir William Temple
1628-1699, British Diplomat, Essayist
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