Quotes About Skill

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Courage is COMPETENCE!

Would it make you feel better if I pretended not to be making it up as I go along? [...] In that case, I know exactly what I'm doing, but please don't ask me about it in any great detail.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it so was my brother.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.

Leadership in this environment is categorically humbling because it is virtually impossible for an individual to accumulate enough knowledge to figure out all of the answers. Interdependence and constant change become a way of life in which humility in the face of this complexity has become a critical survival skill.

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?

When in doubt, win the trick.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Women didn't 'learn' how to cook - you were born knowing how.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Everyone should learn a manual trade. It's never too late to become an honest person.

Deep work on simple, basic ideas helps to build true virtuosity—not just in music but in everything.

successful people regularly focus on the core purpose of their profession or life. True experts continually deepen their mastery of the basics. Trumpeting

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can

Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

A slide rule always impresses, giving to the bystanders a feeling that the user thereof knows what he's about and will shortly come up with the answer.)

Before someone gets their driver's license they should have to beat Rainbow Road on Mario Kart without falling off.

Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage.