Quotes About Skill

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

a master hand that had grown bored with its own expertise, and started to veer towards the grotesque.

Naval aviation, they believed, was not inherently dangerous. Sure, there were risks, but if you were good—really good, like they were—nothing bad would happen.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

THE TECHNIQUE of a little individuality will be a little technique, however scrupulously elaborated it may be.

The brain can be a wonderful tool, can be a willing slave, as has been evidenced by some men, but of course it works poorly when it has not the habit of usage. An automobile can become a source of delight, but the first time you drive you are as apt to go up a tree as to go up the road.

And the most talented people in every occupation have huge advantages over their ordinary peers. Dean Keith Simonton, who studies greatness and genius, finds that whether it comes to songwriters, composers, scientists, programmers, or filmmakers, the top 10 percent generate as much or more output than the other 90 percent.

The fourth big lesson is that scaling starts and ends with individuals—success depends on the will and skill of people at every level of an organization.

Careful and clear thinking requires a certain rigor; it is a skill, and, like all skills, it requires training, practice, and vigilance.

did miss with the first shot, I'd be able to get off at least three shots before you get more than four hundred yards out on your horse," Jess replied bluntly. "What if you miss with all three shots?" Jess finally put the cartridge back into his front pocket. "I'd feel bad about it, but

I know how to use the safety.-Andrea, the Walking Dead S3 finale

But, always remember, children, that power alone is not the full measure of strength. Wisdom and skill are just as needed." -Maia, The Clarion Call

Poetry reading is the chamber music of the actor's craft.

The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.

Despite all the sailing he had done in his life, he knew that he remained a wretched sailor—once he had absentmindedly run his craft onto the shoals, another time into a buoy—and to make matters worse, he could hardly swim a stroke. It was a skill that he had always meant to acquire, but never managed to find time for.

Only by using everything and anything you know about the craft of storytelling can you make your talent forge story. For talent without craft is like fuel without an engine. It burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

Within the first pages of a screenplay a reader can judge the relative skill of the writer simply by noting how he handles exposition.

Mastery of craft frees the subconscious.

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

It was plain that he had had a lot of training, for nobody ever sang so by the light of Nature.