Quotes About Skill

It may look easy but making it look easy is all to do with skill.

you were a genius and a fool. A genius for what you were capable of doing and a fool for what you did.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one-track mind.

Jugamos tres partidas, las cuales ganó Holmes, como siempre, pues su extraordinaria habilidad manual le permitía cambiar las fichas de casilla cuando le daba la gana, sin que lo advirtiese, y yo me armaba unos líos como para nombrar abogado.

Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

The world that this game [football] is about: skill, heart, honor, joy, and team spirit.

Good writing just isn't that common.

Wisdom is skill in living; it is living one's life so that something of lasting value is produced.

when his father was an adolescent in Hull, his "talents for general society with his rare skill in singing rendered him everywhere an acceptable guest, and his time was wasted in a round of visits to the neighbouring gentry.

When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

Anyway, in a world of cheap PCs and fast Internet links, we find pretty consistently that the only really limiting resource is skilled attention.

When the superior programmer refrains from coding, his force is felt for a thousand miles.

Practice makes perfect.

Wer nicht in anderen Städten und bei fremden Meistern gearbeitet hatte, durfte selber nicht Meister werden. Man mußte in der Fremde Geselle gewesen sein, wenn man daheim Meister werden wollte.

In 'Hakon's of Rogen's Saga', I have attempted to tell the story of a boy who lived at the end of the Viking period. It was not written for 'youth,' in the sense that I have blunted my pen before I started. I abhor those writers who have not the skill to keep the attention of adults, and therefore think themselves equipped to write for children. I have done my best, and I leave you to be my critic.

Achieving mastery requires breaking through the shell of your own limitations—both actual and imagined—and struggling up to the freedom and enjoyment of real skill.

She's a skilled and swift fight, and I know she'll pass on her training on to you.

Jayfeather was already expertly separating

Hunting territory: The open hillside Camp: Shallow scoop in hillside Unique battle skill: Speed and agility

Hunting territory: A sandy gorge Camp: Caves in wall of gorge Unique battle skill: Aboveground combat

It's seldom easy to change habits, particularly those so bound up with memories of family and childhood, but, whatever our age, it looks as if eating well is surprisingly teachable skill.