Quotes About Skill

The being/seeing change is an upward process—being changing seeing, which in turn changes being, and so forth, as we move in an upward spiral of growth. By working on knowledge, skill, and desire, we can break through to new levels of personal and interpersonal effectiveness as we break with old paradigms that may have been a source of pseudo-security for years.

habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening? What training or education have you had that enables you to listen so that you really, deeply understand another human being from that individual's own frame of reference?

may not even know I need to listen. Even if I do know that in order to interact effectively with others I really need to listen to them, I may not have the skill. I may not know how to really listen deeply to another human being. But knowing I need to listen and knowing how to listen is not enough. Unless I want to listen, unless I have the desire, it won't be a habit in my life. Creating a habit requires work in all three dimensions.

Habits are patterns of behavior composed of three overlapping components: knowledge, attitude, and skill.

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do.

define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation

Change the brain's response to its environment, even without being able to change that environment itself, and you could change behaviors. You did this through repetitive practices, the same way you learned any other skill or trained any other muscle.

A sniper is like a genius - it's not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.

You have to learn the rules of the game, then you have to play better than everyone else.

Subtlety is a lost art. - Ada

the way. The knowledge of how to swim or ride a bicycle cannot be passed along, or taught in a seminar-it must be

The quality of our motivational skill is directly related to the quality of our questions.

Anything that provides you with an edge over others is worth knowing.

Be undeniably good.

It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: Like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time. What was hard was to be good, consistently good, night after night, no matter what the abominable circumstances.

Be so good they can't ignore you

Be so good they can't ignore you.

Brilliance is encouraged but optional. Competence, however, is mandatory.

Mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.

A mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.

In drawing a wall, he said, "the artist who must copy every small stone and each stroke of whitewash has missed his calling: he should have become a bricklayer.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.