Quotes About Skill

I wish I was a great cricket player, but I am not.

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

I wish I could be good at gymnastics.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool.

I think I always wished I could play guitar as well as Jimi Hendrix.

Without wishing to sound arrogant, when I was younger, I used to win every single martial arts tournament I ever entered. I used to enter the under 14s and under 16s, win both gold medals in those, and then go in the men's tournament just for experience, and end up getting a silver medal.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.

To me, if you can do the Wicked Witch live, you can play anybody.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.

One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

Some hidden talent lies within everyone.

Talent is nothing without dedication and discipline, and dedication and discipline is a talent in itself.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Too many DJs today want to be the headline act without ever knowing what it takes to be the local DJ who's busting his or her gut to perfect their craft.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.