Quotes About Skill

Skill to do comes of doing.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

Aquilo que insistimos em fazer torna-se fácil - não que a natureza da tarefa tenha modificado, mas nossa habilidade para realizá-la aumentou.

Every artist was first an amateur

Remember that pianist who said that if he did not practice every day he would know, if he did not practice for two days, the critics would know, after three days, his audience would know.

The artist must work so hard, so long, that a brain develops and lives, all of itself, in his fingers.

Biz Dünyal?lar, büyük ve güzel ÅŸeyleri y?kmak konusunda hünerliyizdir.

Los buenos escultores tocan la vida a menudo. Los mediocres sólo pasan apresuradamente la mano por encima de ella. Los malos violan y la dejan por inútil.

Remember that pianist who said that if he did not practice every day he would know, if he did not practice for two days, the critics would know, after three days, his audiences would know.

This is why the attainment of proficiency, the pushing of your skill with attention to the most delicate shades of excellence, is a matter of vital concern.  Efficiency of a practically flawless kind may be reached naturally in the struggle for bread.  But there is something beyond—a higher point, a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride beyond mere skill; almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art—which is art.

Napoleon's historian Thiers, like other of his historians, trying to justify his hero says that he was drawn to the walls of Moscow against his will. He is as right as other historians who look for the explanation of historic events in the will of one man; he is as right as the Russian historians who maintain that Napoleon was drawn to Moscow by the skill of

the human nature whose strong quality it brings out and reveals. To attribute any nobility to war itself is as much a confusion of thought as to attribute nobility to cancer or leprosy, because of the skill, devotion and self-sacrifice of those who give up their lives to its cure.

He glanced at me, then chuckled. "Sprezzatura's an Italian word. Means the art of making something difficult look easy.

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. (Said to Leopold Mozart)

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them. It trained them to shoot skeet.

Even when he cheated he couldn't win, because the people he cheated against were always better at cheating too.

even before the war began to provide him with material, Peale had brandished his brush as a weapon and used it with considerably greater skill than he ever used his musket. In his autobiography he called himself a "zealous advocate for the Liberties of his Country" since the time when "Great Britain first attempted to lay a tax on America." 38 This was bragging, but it was also true;

In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.

So, what's first? Dexterity. I throw things at you. You avoid them. You're not a complicated person, are you? Let's do it. 20 seconds later You hib me wib a girder! How many claws am I holding up? You hib my face wib a whole girder! You were meant to duck. Can we skip degsteriby?

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

What is technique but the absence of passion?

powerful blow from a practiced boxer can stop an opponent's heart, it is said. It's a cruel blow but it can be thrown easily if you have the strength and the skill and the will to do such lethal hurt, and if your opponent has no skills of self-defense. Carefully