Quotes About Skill

Writers are born, not created.

The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability.

3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

You like me, you don't like me, you love me, you hate me. I'm gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Martial art has always been my first love.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.

The ethic of craftsmanship involves a willingness to focus, directly and methodically, on what we don't yet know so that we can learn how to work with ever-increasing skill.

There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters

Squash is boxing with racquets.

No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything. "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all" - Michael Angelo

If you want to get better, you simply have to practice. There's no way around it. Even though Prasad, Sona, and Rex all had beneficial early experiences with music, each has had to spend thousands of hours in practice to acquire their musical prowess. Rex told me, "If people could've lived my life and all the hours I've spent practicing the tuba alone in some little room someplace, they probably wouldn't label me as being particularly talented."[6]

Forget about the 10,000-hour rule you've heard so much about. It's a red herring. What's important is not the hours you've practiced, but the kind of practice in your hours. Focus on the tree, not the forest.

To see talent as a gift of natural ability instead of perceiving the long hours of practice that creates talent is nothing new. Michelangelo said, "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

Two kinds of practice contribute to the illusion of natural talent. I call them "accidental practice" and "play as practice.

There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

Musical ability doesn't come from either the chicken or the embryo, it's the chicken and the embryo. Talent isn't some mysterious natural ability. Talent is practice in disguise.

You have to be careful about practicing, because we start to practice practicing. We need to practice performing.

Focus on mastering the music as deeply as you can, and worry less—or not at all if it's possible—about impressing others

Experts who accumulated 10,000 hours of practice weren't trying to accumulate those hours; their focus was elsewhere, on the task at hand.

I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience, I had five thousand and ten. That was the kind of odds that you could do something with.

If I was as half as good as I was. I'm still twice as good as you'll ever be.