Quotes About Skill

One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.

For the German fighter pilot, there was no magic number of sorties or hours, the completion of which guaranteed a return home. He was already home, and in the skies over the Reich he faced an opponent who enjoyed overwhelming superiority. If he survived the first missions and his skills reached those of his opponents, he would fly until fatigue and strain led to a mistake that was more often than not fatal.

I don't rate them, I just hit them.

Next to his pecker, a picker's fingers are his most precious body parts.

Saving a life is not a matter of skill, it's a matter of opportunity.

Sus pretensiones, pues, son infundadas, porque el esfuerzo realizado no nos hace más competentes, sino menos; la ejecución, en términos generales, será deficiente, propensa al error y requerirá más tiempo del que hubieran exigido las tareas por separado.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Kung Fu, like any art, is a practical affair, not just a question of gathering knowledge. In other words, one becomes proficient through hard, regular practice, not by reading about it.

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you play?

To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.

I'm still learning my craft.

Learn to respect a craftsman's talent, to realize that a task done well seems easy but is terribly difficult.

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Age does not count. It's what you know about football that matters.

Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.

But the fact remains that copying is one of the most time-honored training methods in the art world.It forms the basis of the whole concept of apprenticeship.

intensity of competence that crowds the throat with joy.

Mindfulness is a habit, it's something the more one does, the more likely one is to be in that mode with less and less effort…it's a skill that can be learned. It's accessing something we already have. Mindfulness isn't difficult. What's difficult is to remember to be mindful.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Regardless of whether a child seems to be exceptional, mediocre, or even awful at any particular skill at a particular point in time, the potential exists for that

People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.