Quotes About Skill

Unconscious incompetence. This is the lowest level of mastery. Most American male teenagers are at a level of unconscious incompetence when it comes to driving. They are bad drivers. They don't know it and usually they refuse to admit it. The

As the Duke of Wellington put it, "No man fears to do that which he knows he does well.

Brasidas of Sparta said that, "Fear makes men forget, and skill that cannot fight is useless.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

That was when I knew him before, you understand, when he could just pull stuff like that out of his, uh, hat.

Skills which are so great as to amaze those of lesser talents are always mistrusted. Thus

All writing is lies. Good writing is lies skillfully told.

For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Some people may be more gifted than others, but excellence in writing, as in any art form or craft, involves discipline and practice.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you're convinced that cooking is drudgery, you're never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

in the years ahead discover his métier as a writer, that enduring profession of skilled liars

To me playing a violin requires passion, and passion requires a good back.

PBR Bulls are the talent, the cowboys are the props and both are tasked with putting on a great show for the audience

A job you can learn in a single day is not skilled work.

Her needlework both plain and ornamental was excellent, and she might have put a sewing machine to shame.

Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman.

If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.

Fucking really is one of those activities that "practice makes perfect".