Quotes About Skill

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

Just dumb enough to be fearless, just bright enough to be dangerous, and a dead shot.

I once quoted a man as saying, "Violence is the first option, and the last choice, of the competent.

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it.

The fencer's weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer's is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist.

Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice.  7.

How free from all vanity he carried himself in matter of honour and dignity, (as they are esteemed:) his laboriousness and assiduity, his readiness to hear any man, that had aught to say tending to any common good: how generally and impartially he would give every man his due; his skill and knowledge

Accustom yourself to Master tilings of the greatest difficulty, and which you seem to despair of. For if you observe, the Left-hand, tho' for want of Practice, 'tis insignificant to other Business, yet it holds the Bridle better than the Right, because it has been used to it.

And the only reason that "running around your backhand" has become an idiom for avoiding a weakness is that this is exactly what we see great tennis players do, time and time again, whether it's Juan Martín del Potro, Rafael Nadal, or countless others. The phrase describes the act of avoiding a weakness in order to play to a strength, and the lesson from the best is that this leads toward high performance, not away from it.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Once you have surrounded the entire place with the nets of your thought, at least if practical experience has sharpened your skill, nothing will escape you, and everything that is in the subject matter will run up to you and fall into your hands.

In omni disciplina informa est artis praeceptio sine summa assiduitate exercitationis.

But sins must not be overlooked simply because the sinner is skilled.

Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.

By about the year 2000 Communist China will be a "superpower" built by American technology and skill.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.

So much technology, so little talent.

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.