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Quotes About Skill

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.
~ Maurice Greene
By playing in the street, the level of Asian football can absolutely improve, as you will get more technical players. They will be quicker, more creative, and after succeeding in the street, it will be a piece of cake for them to do well eleven a side.
~ Edgar Davids
Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable.
~ Geoff Davis
Well, all baking is a technical challenge as far as I'm concerned.
~ Caroline Quentin
Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.
~ Donald Judd
I was always quite technical as a player, but when you are the size I am, if you are crap in the air, it is going to look bad.
~ Peter Crouch
When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.
~ James Levine
Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
~ Edward Dmytryk
You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.
~ Stanley Clarke
Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.
~ Benjamin Bratt
I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.
~ Ellen Willis
Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company.
~ Edwin Catmull
You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.
~ Stephanie Corneliussen
I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.
~ Melvin Van Peebles
Yes, I'm known as the most technical fighter in the world, and I'm going to keep that as my brand.
~ Demetrious Johnson
I know that I make technical mistakes from time to time. It's one of the aspects of my game that I've been working on for years. I think I've managed to reduce the number of those technical mistakes to a minimum, but occasionally, they happen. On the other hand, I do have moments of technical brilliance.
~ Thomas Muller
As a child, I played on the road against bigger players. Due to my technical skills, I've always got by.
~ Jerome Boateng
Every league has its own culture, its own identity, and its own type of football. It's very physical in England, but technical skill comes to the fore in Spain, where everybody wants to play beautiful football. The standards are very high in Germany, too; the teams are physically strong, very disciplined, and very well organised.
~ Arjen Robben
There is a part of football I would describe as 'serious' and one part I would describe as more 'playful,' i.e. more technical.
~ Frank Rijkaard
It's a stereotype that black players are just really fast, but at the end of day I want to be skilled, I want to be technical, I want to have vision and that's what I've always tried to promote in my game: not relying on one thing but just being able to outwork players in so many different ways.
~ Crystal Dunn
The closer I got to Essex 2nds, the more technical I got with my batting.
~ Nasser Hussain
We've always been fans of groups like Little Feat, Steely Dan, the Eagles, or Dire Straits that have that quality. Bands that sometimes are perceived as not the 'cool' band, because they're so good in a technical sense.
~ Taylor Goldsmith
I know I'm the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.
~ Derrick Lewis