Quotes About Skill

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

This move is called Qworegoys, and the women of my grandmother's family taught it to their daughters just as they taught them to make thorn-bush fences to protect the hut from hyenas.

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don't see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Lazy But Talented

For the conduct of the war: at the first, men rested extremely upon number: they did put the wars likewise upon main force and valor; pointing days for pitched fields, and so trying it out upon an even match and they were more ignorant in ranging and arraying their battles. After, they grew to rest upon number rather competent, than vast; they grew to advantages of place, cunning diversions, and the like: and they grew more skilful in the ordering of their battles.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.

I don't just rap - I sing and I dance as well.

I will rap circles around anybody.

People like to say, 'Ah, he just knows how to rap.' As if I didn't know my music.

Rap is very competitive. I just think I'm light years better than anybody.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

I can rap, play ball, design T-shirts, all that.

I'm not just a great white rapper. I'm a great rapper.

Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

I'm a pretty terrible rapper. I always have been.

I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.

I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

You might not be the greatest rapper or singer, but the businessman always outlasts the talent.

A good rapper is an amazing thing to me. It's like a 17th-, 18th-century poet.