"The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again."

-- Penn Jillette

#Skills Quotes #Magic Quotes #Use Quotes

“To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.”
“Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!”

Source : Charles Stross (2006). “The Atrocity Archives”, p.32, Penguin
“As your training progresses, always remember that the key to gaining the ability for spontaneous and creative technique lies in good ukemi;”

Source : Mitsugi Saotome (1989). “The Principles of Aikido”, Shambhala Publications
“Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.”
“Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth”

Source : Song: The Ritual, 2008
“The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.”
“An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.”

Source : William Camden, John Philipot, Thomas Moule, Mark Antony Lower (1870). “Remains Concerning Britain”, p.318, Ep Publishing Limited
“Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'”

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