Quotes About Skill

His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

His genius was belowThe skill of ev'ry common beau;Who, tho' he cannot spell, is wiseEnough to read a lady's eyes;And will each accidental glanceInterpret for a kind advance.Swift'sMiscell.

I could produce innumerable instances from my own memory and observation, of events imputed to the profound skill and address of a minister, which, in reality, were either mere effects of negligence, weakness, humour, passion, or pride, or, at best, but the natural course of things left to themselves.Swift'sThoughts on the present Posture of Affairs.5. Manner

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

O my Lucy! One branch of my vanity is intirely lopt off. I must pretend to some sort of skill in physiognomy! Never more will I, for this fellow's sake, presume to depend on my judgment of peoples hearts framed from their countenances.

I want to knit socks for the soldiers. It's not as easy as that, she said, looking at me strangely. It's difficult to turn a good heel. There are competitions over it.

And, to our collective surprise, it turned out that for a person who doesn't like people, I'm pretty good at this customer service stuff.

Lawyers make their living mincing words. Many devote their skill and hard labor to constructing the apparatus of justification.

Sometimes I wished I could become a shoemaker too.

The Success Formula: Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success

Goals are for losers. Your mind isn't magic. It's a moist computer you can program. The most important metric to track is your personal energy. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Happiness is health plus freedom. Luck can be managed, sort of. Conquer shyness by being a huge phony (in a good way). Fitness is the lever that moves the world. Simplicity transforms ordinary into amazing.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Happiness

A great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick

great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick the Delusion That Works When my dog, Snickers, wants to play fetch in the backyard, she follows me around and stares into my eyes with freakish intensity, as if using her Jedi doggy powers on me.

There's no denying the importance of practice. The hard part is figuring out what to practice.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

Aquel que quiere obrar correctamente, debe servirse de la herramienta apropiada.

The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

Jer savrsenog protivrecja spoj ne shvata niti mudrac, nit' glupak, nit iko. Moj prijatelju, vestina je ova koliko drevna, toliko i nova. Vazda je covek sluzio se time: trime i jednim, i jednim i trime zabludu mesto istine da slavi. I tako brblja, druge uci tako neometano, po volji i vesto. Ko bi jos budalama da se bavi? Samo li cuje reci, obicno smatra svako da se pri tom, bez sumnje, mora i misliti nesto.

Ein wirklich großes Talent findet sein Glück in der Ausführung.

You can't go faster when you avoid technical excellence.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.