Quotes About Skill

Keller has long believed that you have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky.

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness

Be so good they can't ignore you.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly

I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life

Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.

The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice.

He kisses like . . . like it could be his job." Margot giggles and lifts the spoons off her eyes. "Like a male prostitute?

No, I'm gonna get it. Just give me a second. I'm gonna master it just like I mastered the other kind of French. - He winks at me.

Mama sewed the hole up straight away. I didn't even know she could sew. I almost didn't trust her with it because she'd had half a bottle of wine with supper, but she did a good job.

You only know of you can do something if you keep doing it.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

Ozzie Smith just made a play that I have never seen before. And he's done it more times than anyone else.