Quotes About Skill

Nothing gets easier but our abilities get better.

I also juggle," he said in a grave tone, "and am quite adept with a deck of cards.

the poetry lies in the crude handling of the paint rather than in the subject matter.

Accomplishment is one part commitment, one part ability, one part persistence, and one part circumstance. Circumstance we cannot control. The rest we might.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

I don't show off. I merely demonstrate my abilities at opportune times." - Skulduggery Pleasant

I don't show off. I merely demonstrate my abilities at opportune times.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

Art without knowledge is nothing!