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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Epicurus

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

Chuck Yeager

I think those three guys have the ability to really run at defenses. They are extremely fast, strong and skillful and can really break down a defense.

George Gelnovatch

It's the difference between a very stupid bank thief and a very skillful one. It doesn't mean the skillful one will not get caught.

Marvin Miller

What you had at that time was a president really interested in tax reform and a very skillful Treasury secretary (James Baker) interested in advancing the ideal.

Joseph Thorndike

The best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.

Bertie Ahern

He had 12 years to hide it. He was very skillful at doing that.

Jay Garner

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

William H. Gass

I was impressed with what he did. He's very skillful as a manufacturing engineer. He never had responsibility for product design, (but) he got it and he did a great job.

Jim Jensen

For us, we may not be the most skillful group, but you can never fault the effort. The defensive end, that?s all it is, it?s heart.

Mike Wheeler

Cynthia is one of the nation's most skillful editorial writers and commentators.

Matthew Storin

As a taxpayer, I think it's the right thing to do - if he can get the right people to do it. I've always said that a skillful customer increases everybody's chances for success.

Sidney Fuchs

It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them.

Doris Lilly

He's an extremely good trial lawyer. He does his homework. He prepares extremely hard for cases. He's a very articulate and skillful defense attorney.

John Lachance

This man is in terrible shape, ... His health circumstances are really barely short of extreme, and I have no doubt that he's in need of skillful medical attention.

Howard Baker

This is a three-shot hole to most players ... but also a magnificent two-shot hole, as a skillful and courageous player will ... be able to pull his second shot around to the green.

Alister Mackenzie

The media's credibility takes a short-term hit with these public corrections. But ... the media is becoming very skillful at policing itself - which will build its accuracy in the future.

Matthew Felling

These boys have been playing against each other, so they've got to know each other. The boys seem to have come together. For whatever reason, this particular age group has just produced some very strong players. They're very technical, very skillful and very good at going forward.

Ajit Korgaokar

We haven't found the right combination on the field yet. I feel that we have many skillful players and it will take a few games to get acclimated to the high school playing level.

Nancy Connelly

The first half was extremely physical. Richmond Academy plays hard, and we played very hard. Certain matches are going to get physical. This one did. We have skillful players who can get physical if they need to, and Richmond Academy does, too.

Bobby Brockman

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

George William Curtis

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Ernest Becker