Quotes About Skill

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.

Achievement is talent plus preparation

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

The very essence of success is practice.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

The one sure way to success is to know everything you can about what you do.

Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years (as confirmed by the research of Anders Ericsson and others).

Lucky is where skill meets persistence.

Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.

Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.

parrying like a man who had the greatest respect for his own epidermis.

He rose in his turn, and seizing handfuls of confetti and sweetmeats, with which the carriage was filled, cast them with all the force and skill he was master of.

I felt ashamed at letting a talent like mine go to waste, and, as I had been given some new pistols, I thought I'd try them out on the Arabs.