Quotes About Skill

Only talent helps you to survive in this competitive world.

I love that feeling of being in a battle with the new ball, you're getting an opening batsman out while they are desperate to survive.

I appreciate every batsman in the world for different reasons. If I want someone to tough it out in the middle, I'd pick Steve Waugh. If I want someone who I know is going to have the technique to survive, you want a player like Tendulkar.

Every night, you're going up against an elite guard and there's really nothing you can do. You either have to be God-gifted and move your feet, or else you're toast.

I feel very fortunate that I make everything I wear head to toe every day.

Short track is like metal rock. You kind of always got to be on your toes.

I've got a lot of pedals and a lot of knobs that need to be switching around during my performance, so I've taught my toes how to do that.

For singers and drummers, you've really gotta have your chops together just to do a rehearsal.

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that, it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in, but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.

It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look it fast.

Great talents encourage great incapacities, but maintaining an inability to cook an egg or drive a car won't make you into a genius.

I suspect competence follows from an ability to believe oneself competent.

It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look fast.

Talent is a double-edged sword. What you are given is not really yours. What you work at, what you struggle for, what you have to take command of—that often makes for very good art.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Loving the game meant mastering the mechanics of the game.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands--someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

Curlers do it hard.

The world is in crisis. It needs people who have the skill to combine inner power with outer action. Inner power comes from self mastery, observing and controlling the ego, and deepening integrity through a regular practice of reflection or meditation.

Persistence at a poorly defined problem is futile, and talent applied to an unsolvable problem is worthless. The challenge is knowing how to define problems with enough constraints to help creativity, but not so many that creativity, or any solution, is impossible. Mastering this skill is one secret that explains who successfully makes things and who doesn't.

Knowing how much friction is needed and when to apply it is the skill that successful leaders, from the coach of a competitive basketball team to the conductor of an orchestra, must master.

You are not your camera nor is your photography your camera. Nobody who matters cares what camera you use.