Quotes About Skill

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.

But I've since learned that for an athlete, the toughness has to come from within—from some sort of hunger, crisis, or need. You can coach nearly any other quality or skill into a runner, but you can't coach that.

Preaching is an art, and in this, as in all other arts, the bad performers far outnumber the good.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Da se napiše loša knjiga, treba isto toliko truda kao i da se napiše dobra.

Tras aquellas semanas de ocio en Londres, durante las cuales, cuando deseaba algo le bastaba pulsar un botón o girar una manija, fue para él una delicia hacer algo que exigía habilidad y paciencia.

Certo... sai che musica però... con quelle mani, due, destre... se solo c'è un pianoforte...

Any fool can write about dejection, but describing happiness takes determination and skill.

He agreed with David Hockney that an artist really had to be able to draw before anything else could be achieved.

Love of what you do is unmistakable in the care with which you do it, whether it is seen in the way in which an artist applies the final touch of paint to his canvas, a master carpenter sands the last touch of roughness from the surface of the wood, or a woman making pasta kneads the compliant dough, draws it out, coaxes it to the right consistency.

His principal amusement was shooting with a pistol. The walls of his room were riddled with bullets, and were as full of holes as a honeycomb. A rich collection of pistols was the only luxury in the humble cottage where he lived. The skill which he had acquired with his favorite weapon was simply incredible: and if he had offered to shoot a pear off somebody's forage-cap, not a man in our regiment would have hesitated to place the object upon his head.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

The definition of a strength that we will use throughout this book is quite specific: consistent near perfect performance in an activity.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded."... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

When we studied them, excellent performers were rarely well rounded. On the contrary, they were sharp.

Rapid learning offers another trace of talent. Sometimes a talent doesn't signal itself through yearning. For a myriad of reasons, although the talent exists within you, you don't hear its call. Instead, comparatively late in life, something sparks the talent, and it is the speed at which you learn a new skill that provides the telltale clue to the talent's presence and power.

Talent is any recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.

Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as "the ten-thousand-hour rule."[9]

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

The more I practice piano, the more pleasure I get from the sound, and so the more I play the piano, which gives me more practice.

You proved your skill and exposed their deceit without uttering a single word of accusation. Brilliant!