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Quotes About Skill

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.
~ Steve Staunton
The muscle memory of filtering away all the wrong versions of what you're doing improves the more time you're on a film set. I feel like my problem-solving algorithm got kicked up a notch.
~ Steven Soderbergh
Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.
~ Steven Wright
I'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
~ Tom Petty
You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.
~ William Lucking
I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
~ Zooey Deschanel
It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.
~ Kate Beckinsale
Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!
~ Kelly Marcel
I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.
~ Kenny Wormald
I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.
~ Kevin Eubanks
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.
~ Kirk Hammett
Um, yeah 15-year-olds don't lead at an LPGA event all the time. But like I said, I'm very surprised. I've been playing really good golf and I'm confident with my game.
~ Lydia Ko
Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
~ Maeve Binchy
People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.
~ Margaret Cho
The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.
~ Marion Bartoli
Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.
~ Mark Addy
One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever you're doing. It will give you an advantage because most people don't do this.
~ Mark Cuban
Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.
~ Mickey Mantle
By far Gretzky is the most talented player ever. Every time he gets the puck something exciting happens.
~ Mike Milbury
So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.
~ Miroslav Vitous
Ray Gomez is one of the greatest guitarists of all times!
~ Narada Michael Walden
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
~ Mark Twain
The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot.
~ Mark Twain