Quotes About Skill

Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.

In surgery, as in anything else, skill and confidence are learned through experience

we need practice to get good at what we do.

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: "I can do it better than you," but simply: "I can do it." What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.

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You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

Mindful awareness is not presented as a passive concentration on a single, steady object, but as a refined engagement with a shifting, complex world. Mindfulness is a skill that can be developed. It is a choice, an act, a response that springs from a quiet but curious intelligence. And it is empathetic, keenly sensitized to the peculiar texture of one's own and others' suffering.

It is dangerous that by sudden invasions men shall be drawn to the use of his weapons before he hath skill how to use it

Schönerer, he related in Mein Kampf how much he had learned during his years in Vienna from watching the mayor's skill in flattering the urban proletariat, and in understanding that the less propaganda is based on intellectual appeals and reason, and the more on "the emotions of the masses, the more effective it will be.

So, I heard you're this ninja or something.

I can play … I mean, as an effort of will I can sit down and learn a piece at the piano and reproduce it, so that those who hear will not necessarily move away with their hands clutched to their mouths, vomit leaking through fingers, blood dripping from ears.

as with almost all human practices, there are those who have the mysterious ability to raise the everyday and ordinary to the level of art.

Call it a private demonstration of the fistic arts.

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

You cant be too careful on a skateboard.

writing couldn't really be taught, only learned.

To be what it takes for truly being is the most profound skill among all that exists in any form