Quotes About Skill

Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence.

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

Knowledge must become capability.

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.

Winning or losing can be attributed to one of four factors: ability, effort

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. What your co-workers say about you, what your opponent is doing -- that doesn't matter.

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.