Quotes About Skill

I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it.

the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. I am sorry, you ugly creature, he said. I have not used my magic in a long time, and I am very out of practice.

I shall practice, that I may dazzle you when next we meet." There was a little silence, and Luthe said, "You need not try to dazzle me.

The difficulty with von Falkenhayn's original concept was that since the city had to be defended, the French had made it defensible. Once the Germans had lost the advantage of surprise and failed to take Verdun in the first few days, the French were fully alert to the threat and responded to it with increasing force, more weaponry, and not a little skill.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it

An enthusiastic, dedicated person who is ridiculously good at what they do just cannot be denied. Seriously.

The way you practice in private is precisely the way you'll perform once you're in public.

Do anything long enough and you'll get some depth of insight and understanding about it.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it," observed David Starr Jordan.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. . . . The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be a virtuoso. A standout. An exceptionalist.

managing your morning well is a main skill of exceptionalists

Specifically, a performer must invest at least two hours and forty-four minutes of daily improvement on their chosen skill for ten years, as preeminent psychologist Anders Ericsson of Florida State University has taught us through his groundbreaking research.

Wisdom without proper tools for its application is no wisdom at all.

Be so good that people cannot ignore you.

focus married with time produces mastery

If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.

Remember, every professional was once an amateur, and every master started as a beginner.

Legendary performers practice being spectacular for so long that they no longer remember how to behave in non-spectacular ways.

Our word 'poetry' comes from Greek poi?sis, the skill of making things;

Things seldom happened accidentally to George Washington, but he managed them with such consummate skill that they often seemed to happen accidentally. By 1775 he had a fine sense of power—how to gain it, how to keep it, how to wield it.

John, I might have known it. You do things better and more easily than anyone else.

Waiting is a skill like anything else.

You need infinite patience. No use fretting or worrying. You just wait. Doing nothing, thinking nothing, burning no energy. Then you burst into action. After an hour, five hours, a day, a week. Waiting is a skill like anything else.