Quotes About Skill

It was at this point that the transition was first made to the conception that rhetoric was a teachable skill, that it could, usually in return for a fee, be passed from one skilled performer on to others, who might thereby achieve successes in their practical life that would otherwise have eluded them.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

In the next place, Experience and Skill in the various particulars is thought to be a species of Courage: whence Socrates also thought that Courage was knowledge.

There may be something of the amateur in all great artists.

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

You should practice these until they are your second nature.

Jan had always been a good pianist—and now he was the finest in the world.

Then I remembered that these men didn't seem any cleverer than I was; they were highly trained, that was all. If one worked hard enough, one could master anything.

It was a nuisance having to learn Morse—in this age, it seemed such an anachronism, and many were the bitter protests among pilots and space-engineers at the waste of effort. In your whole lifetime, you might need it only once. But that was the point. You would really need it then.

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?' 'No, I have not.' 'Well, well, such is fame!

You are aware that I have some proficiency in the good old British sport of boxing.

Ya sabe que el prestidigitador desmerece en cuanto explica su truco; si yo le muestro a usted una parte excesiva de mis métodos de trabajo llegará a la conclusión de que, a fin de cuentas, soy un personaje corriente.

De qué sirve tener talento, doctor, si no se tiene campo en el que aplicarlo?

No, my career as a warrior princess, short as it had been, was over, I thought morosely. Violence only works if you're good at it. Otherwise, it hurts too much.

You'll be in the race tomorrow?" "Of course," I said, lifting my hands. "I have to prove whether my wins last time were luck, skill--or the kindness of well-wishers." Tamara smiled a little. "And once you've proved which it is?" "Why then I either celebrate, commiserate--or fulminate!

skeptics, believers, and good croquet players are harder to come by today . . .

Why not teach him a trade?" Pinye says. "Americans work with their hands.

baseball is a game played by the dexterous, but only understood by the Poindexterous."9

El virtuosismo en todo arte consiste en la capacidad de salirse de sí mismo

Mary was the wife of Fowler Greenhill, M.D., of Fort Beulah, a gay and hustling medico, a choleric and red-headed young man, who was a wonder-worker in typhoid, acute appendicitis, obstetrics, compound fractures, and diets for anemic children.

GIVE US THE TOOLS AND WE WILL FINISH THE WORK