Quotes About Skill

Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade, Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.

asking discerning questions is a key directoral skill, and the wish to ask them a necessary attitude.

Golf's a hard game to figure. One day you'll go out and slice it, shank it, hit all the traps, and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.

He was simply the most intelligent football player I ever saw. If I had one player to choose, out of all of them, to save my life, he'd be the one.

That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it.

It's just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Firing pucks at your garage door is probably something that young hockey players have always done.

The most skilled coaches will always find a way for players to have fun, even if that trophy is nowhere in sight. Creating little victories within the bigger defeats is a mark of excellent coaching, and to those who follow that path, I applaud you. W

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.

I've never shot like that in my life. That's unholy." Uncle Cal claimed credit for teaching her to shoot, but while Margo had felt his guidance, she had felt just as strongly the guidance of the gun itself. It held her steady, and then sadness perfected her aim.

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.

I tried to emphasize the fact that while the Negro should not be deprived by unfair means of the franchise, political agitation alone would not save him, and that back of the ballot he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character, and that no race without these elements could permanently succeed.

When a Negro girl learns to cook, to wash dishes, to sew, or write a book, or a Negro boy learns to groom horses, or to grow sweet potatoes, or to produce butter, or to build a house, or to be able to practise medicine, as well or better than some one else, they will be rewarded regardless of race or colour. In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not long keep the world from what it wants.

This institution does not exist for your education alone; it does not exist for your comfort and happiness altogether, although those things are important, and we keep them in mind; it exists that we may give you intelligence, skill of hand, and strength of mind and heart; and we help you in these ways that you, in turn, may help others.

What a shot! Now tell me Zurov wastes his time making holes in five-kopeck pieces! From forty paces straight into the back of the head, and you have to take the poor light into account.