Quotes About Skill

Creating a distraction is a skill we should all have. Never take for granted your ability to spot something interesting out of the corner of you eye and take attention away from your thoughtlessness.

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

I've taken quite a few risks on the ski slopes. Like if I'm a green-level skier, I'm going on the blacks just because it's hard and a challenge. That's probably not the best idea.

Brazil has so many good free-kick takers.

A shooter takes shots, a shotter makes shots.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

It takes a lifetime to master one dance form.

A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

Taking on defenders is what gives me a buzz.

When drivers are going at their best, trying their hardest, taking chances and doing amazing things, that's what fans love.

I've a secret desire to be a tradie really. I wouldn't mind taking time out to do a carpentry course.

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Let the path be open to talent.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

I have some talent. So, I'm going to show it off. No matter what, I'm gonna keep going.