Quotes About Skill

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.

They compose poems to their knives.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

The cacophony in my head is completely unmanageable, and it's out of the failure to blend all those dissonant voices smoothly that whatever individuality I might have has managed to emerge. Imitation is the condition of originality. Or, to put it another way: imitation is the shortest route to and the truest test of proficiency. To mimic a master requires skill and practice, which become the sources of your own mastery.

What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality

If there is anything a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

Whatever be the actual state of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which labour is applied in any nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must depend, during the continuance of that state, upon the proportion between the number of those who are annually employed