Quotes About Skill

I belong in the ring.

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.

I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.

I'm interested in any light-middleweight. If they've got a belt, even if they think they're the hardest in the division, I can beat all of them.

I have a Gracie background and a Matt Serra background so I've always used jiu-jitsu but it takes a while to reach black belt level.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they man.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

Every night after dinner he honed this skill of enduring a dull thing that brought a parent pleasure. It seemed to him a lifesaving skill. He believed that terrible harm would come to him when he could no longer preserve his mother's illusions.

with nothing left to relish or discover, he just might die of boredom. Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.

Un buon lettore è raro quanto un bravo scrittore.

Aprendió el arte vagabundo de los troperos. Aprendió el otro, más difícil, de mandar hombres; ambos lo ayudaron a ser un buen ladrón de hacienda.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

I can write faster than anybody who can write better, and I can write better than anybody who can write faster.

Wiem, ?e to si? wydaje ?atwe - powiedzia? Prosiaczek do siebie - ale nie ka?dy to potrafi

You should be able to do anything a human being can do (from my late father's wisdom).

The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

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

My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do." Knowing when not to operate, knowing when I am in over my head, knowing when to call for the assistance of a surgeon of my father's caliber--that kind of talent, that kind of "brilliance," goes unheralded.

I could see that the almost mystical aura of this legendary surgeon -- the single-mindedness, the dedication, the skill -- was mere surface. The surgical persona was something he had crafter to protect himself. But what he had created was a prison. Anytime he strayed from the professional to the personal, he knew what to expect: pain.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores.