Quotes About Skill

psikoloji profesörü olan Jan Tonnes­vang'?n söyledi?ine göre, herkesin bir "ustal?k" duygusuna bir alanda iyi oldu?unu hissetmeye ihtiyac? var. ?nsan?n temel psikolojik ih­tiyaçlar?ndan biri bu. Bir konuda iyi oldu?unuzu hissetti?inizde ona çok daha kolay odaklanabiliyorsunuz; beceriksiz oldu?unuzu hissetti?inizde ise dikkatiniz da??l?p gidiyor.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

Craft the finest arrow Forage jungles for straightest shaft Forge sharpest head of glass Pluck feathers of the wisest crow Without the simplest archer and bow Without a mark that's true Useless Craft the finest vessel Fell the jungle's strongest mast Build the world's mightiest hull A flag the crown of all seas you can sew Without the simplest oarsmen to row Without a port that's true Useless

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgement, and education -- Sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Conceptual art isn't art, but it is Jewish. It signals the culmination of the Jewish takeover of modern art. Conceptual art requires no artistic ability, talent or skill. That's why Jews gravitate toward it and promote it. It's an example of Jews defining art as what they do rather than defining art in its relationship to Logos.

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.

Don't act. Or act better.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

In the annals of time, how many people had walked our earth as a sniper?