Quotes About Skill

It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft

When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

Whatever you do, do it well.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

Complete knowledge of any alien physiology could be obtained within minutes by Educator Tape, but the skill to use that knowledge—especially in surgery—came only with time.

The research on the importance of practice was made famous by Malcolm Gladwell (2008) when he argued that ten thousand hours of practice are necessary to become an expert in a field.

He was a good con man, but not a great con man. He wasn't ruthless enough. He had all the tricks, all the techniques, the facility for it. That part if you'll excuse the expression, was in his blood. But he never really had the heart for it.

every Toyota team member goes through a basic set of development steps at each stage of her development, following the process of basic learning by copying exactly (shu), mastering the basics so that they become second nature (ha), and becoming so masterful at the basics that she can go beyond these and improvise (ri).

Der Trick besteht darin, den Anfänger weiterhin neben dem Experten bestehen zu lassen.

for the vernacular which he was adept at converting

Some people are smart. Some people are good." He opened his eyes and put a hand on each of my shoulders. "And some people are both.

Jameson shrugged. "What can I say? I really am just that good.

She's got a gun. Eve held her weapon the way that Nash had taught me to hold mine.

I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector. So brilliant that I could get a full scholarship to college and major in it, except why bother? I've already mastered the art.

There's an art in every labour.