Quotes About Skill

Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.

Daily, Deliberate Practice is the central goal of learning any skill. Never underestimate the power of human will. Joseph Klunder Education Challenge is more an attitude that can be applied to any learning situation.

it takes almost a lifetime to learn how to do a thing simply.

Und Herr von Trotta glich einem Virtuosen, in dem das Feuer erloschen, in dessen Seele es taub und leer geworden ist und dessen Finger nur noch in kalter, seit Jahren erworbener Dienstfertigkeit dank ihrem eigenen, toten Gedächtnis richtige Klänge erzeugen.

To keep the absolute difficulty level constant, whenever you increase the time pressure on a player, you should also reduce the amount of intrinsic skill required.

The relative difficulty is the difficulty of a challenge relative to the player's power to meet that challenge.

In the most general sense, a balanced game is fair to the player (or players), is neither too easy nor too hard, and makes the skill of the player the most important factor in determining his success. In

Don't confuse the term games of progression with other ideas about progression in games, such as leveling up, difficulty curves, skill trees, and so on. We use Juul's definition of the term: A game of progression is one that offers predesigned challenges, each of which often has exactly one solution, in a fixed (or only slightly variable) sequence.

That's how you know you've mastered a videogame—when a bunch of butt-hurt crybabies start to accuse you of cheating in an effort to cope with the beatdown they've just suffered at your hands.

I knew Armada was only a videogame, but I'd never been one of the "best of the best" at anything before, and my accomplishment gave me a real sense of pride.

There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

Listen," I said. "It really was luck. I've got a knack for classic arcade games. That's my specialty." I shrugged. "Stop hitting yourself like Rain Man, OK?" She

Las únicas armas eran las palabras, por lo que no tarde en aprender a blandirlas con mucha habilidad.

It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games.

Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

To distinguish between the possession of an organ and the urge to use it and to increase its skill by practice, to regard them as two different characteristics of the organism in question, would be an artificial distinction, made possible by an abstract language but having no counterpart in nature.

An empty belly is the best cook.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they're no good.

After all, this is what learning is: as we learn a task, we get better at it, be it tennis, geometry, or a foreign language.

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis.

Learning is the engine of practice, and practice is the history of that learning.

Draftsmen may be made, but colorists are born.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.