Quotes About Skill

Our fingers are frustratingly accurate in using the information we give them. If we imagine sloppily, we play sloppily; if we imagine clearly and precisely, that is how we play.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.

Confidence is a prerequisite to competence. Yes! because when your confidence grows, your competence is bound to grow along with it. I mean, self-confidence boosts competence unimaginably.

Self-confidence/assurance is simply all about being on a firm ground i.e. self-confidence/assurance is all about being 100% assured/confident of your self/potential/skill/ability/belief. Now that infers, whoever that is not assured/confident of his/her potential/skill/ability/belief is never self-confident/assured. So, dare to be self-assured/confident if you've not been self-confident/assured.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

But then the mist of battles passes away, and the sound of the daily conflict no longer hurtles in the air, and a generation arises skilled with the skill of peace, and refined with the refinement of civilization, yet still remembering the old world, still appreciating the old life, still wondering at the old men, and ready to receive, at the hand of the poet, a new telling of the old tale.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

The words fell as the axe of a skillful woodman falls at the root of a young tree and brings it down at a single blow.

Talent in love, as in every other art, consists in the power of forming a conception combined with the power of carrying it out.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

There is no point in doing something unless you do it well.

The boy would learn to ride, to fight, and to hawk, the three chief physical elements of noble life,

A golf course is nothing but a poolroom moved outdoors.

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

Mums Augen waren trocken, wahrscheinlich weil sie sich für eine Expertin im Weinen hielt und keine Übung brauchte.

In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.

My ten year old son, at this point, can go into the kitchen and, without a recipe, make cookie dough of some kind. It's not the same every time, but he just knows what it looks like, which is a lot earlier than I ever was involved. I mean, I could make, out of a package brownies and cakes, but not just wing it together. He might be a visionary.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.