Quotes About Skill

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

wheelwright, the person who makes a wooden wheel.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

And very few people have great natural ability. Everyone else—and this is true of most players these days—is in the middle: On a given day, a guy is a world-beater, then the next day he's just not there.

Se was not a greatparent. Se did not have the skill of making luck.

Years of practice kept the ironic tinge from her voice.

He had, I thought, Morgan's hands: strong-fingered, capable.

In the souls of the craftsmen who carved this mine, utility was no excuse for a thing to be anything but beautiful.

He coded like some people danced, glitter-eyed concentration and confident grace and never a hesitation.

A good hunter did not rush into a den of lions unprepared, and Dante was a very good hunter.

One thing however, Nat did for him. He taught him carpentry. He learned to distinguish between the different kinds of wood, to love them and understand their ways. Realizing that the boy had great skill with his hands Nat gave him a few tools for his own and taught him wood carving.... First the books and then the wood. Each was a milestone for him on the way through.

Her needles clicked and flashed triumphantly as her eyes came back from their journeying and fixed themselves upon her work for that one knitting event for which their regard was necessary- the turning of the heel.

I like swordwork. It's like riding, that way - it forces concentration, and thus opens up the world.

reminder how some people could do things others could not.

Golf is hockey at the halt.

All our skill at disproving things is like a wall we build between us and wonder. To jump that wall, you need a long running start.-The Tragedy of Arthur

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

El capitán, seguro de no resistir mucho rato frente a cinco hombres armados y diestros en el oficio, decidió no andarse con lindezas de esgrima, y en vez de curar su salud procuró desbaratar la de sus enemigos.

Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.

We recruit for attitude and train for skill

Well done is quickly done.