Quotes About Skill

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy. The process whereby it migrates from one category to the other is known as practicing.

When you are learning a new technique, practice it wholeheartedly until you truly understand it.

Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.