Quotes About Skill

Empiece por aprender a dibujar y pintar como los viejos maestros. Después de eso, puede hacer lo que quiera; todos te respetarán. Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad.

Getting along with people is a byproduct of constructive communication, and it is a skill that can be taught. Not only can it be taught-it should be taught!

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.

Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.

Golf is played with the arms

The greens are harder than a whore's heart

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

The interval of two notes could divide your heart and the tug of words against rhythm could mend it: I'd stumbled on the means to say whatever was true in this life. I only wanted the skill to do it.

But aside from Willy's skill at learning another language which his father did not know enough to appreciate, his only distinction in schooling was mathematics. Numbers came easily to him. And it was not just simple mathematics but anything that was curious. Many nights in bed he pondered numbers.

You're a magician or some kind of weird, witchy woman. I don't know how you do it. You never lose," he said one night, exasperated after I pummeled him game after game. "You're like Wonder Woman or some backgammon superhero. Hey, I've got it—you're Backgammon Girl.

don't know. I'm just telling you what I can observe, an essential skill of scientists and con men alike.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains.

Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely.

Beside, 'tis known he could speak GreekAs naturally as pigs squeak:That Latin was no more difficileThan to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

If there was an ethos at Squid Frames, it came from the elevation of craft. When a piece of wood was stained and finished particularly well, eyebrows were raised but little was said. The type of things that would score the most admiration were precisely the things that others would not recognize at all, because when the frames were well made, the eye would simply travel to the art.

He told me that when he went away on vacation for a couple of weeks he could lose the feel of the dough. It took a day or two to get it back. "I usually measure how good I am by how quickly 'it' returns," he said.

You can, when you choose, sharpen the pencil of your mind to a very fine point. Specialize, my boy, specialize.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.