Quotes About Skill

Jennifer Lawrence is a mastermind. She has no training and she's just so naturally good.

The easy part is training a horse; the hard part is finding a good one.

I like to empty my mind and focus on developing my abilities in training.

To do anything professionally, you need to train in it. You can't practise music without training.

Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.

So much success from set pieces comes from practice. Maybe fans see a well-worked free-kick and think it looks good, but to get that, there has been hours of work that nobody has seen on the training ground.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Leadership is a trait; it's not a skill.

The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance. It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense - the home sense - which operates unerringly.

Everything was really competitive. We used to always do field day, relays. Races. I was always just naturally good at those things. So when I started playing football, I used some of those traits.

One game that I've been playing a lot is 'Super Stick Golf.' It's really simple, and it's similar in a sense to 'Angry Birds' because you have to hit the right angle and the right trajectory to complete each hole. That one really hooked me.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

In what transcends this world, the best is Messi because he is incredible: he does things that nobody can do.

Transfer fees don't show which player is better. It's only a number necessary for a club to get a player.

Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill.

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

Even great actors who transform who they are still go to a really honest place; I think that's sort of that special skill that actors have.

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience in a certain way. It's not really so much about transforming yourself the way actors do onstage. I think there's a difference between the skill of acting in movies and onstage.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

While training is important to fine-tune one's skill set, in my case, the exhaustive theatre experience and the grind of rehearsals ensured an easy transition into different roles.

As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.

I like to get the ball in transition and go and everything, but I'm also not as dependent on having the ball all the time as I was maybe in college and when I first got to the NBA.