Quotes About Skill

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.   I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Se eu nunca aprendesse, nunca teria que colocar aquilo em prática.

Having top-of-the-line tools is imperative, but being the top-notch carpenter who masterfully uses those tools is even more critical.

Some of the verse of Tennyson shows immense technical skill, is better than anything of Shelley or Swinburne.43 I cite Tennyson's consummate skill to show that it is not merely a question of the slipshod, or of a degeneration of the ear. It is something deeper than that. It is a further stage in the disintegration of the intellect, the further separation of sound, image and thought.

The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.

But he spoke English better than I, he having mastered it, whereas I was only born to its careless use.

I know how to boil water, that doesn't make me a gourmet chef.

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!

He has artistry, he repeated. Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm.

You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel

I hate those things," grumbled Kel as she removed the bowstring.

Usually, she liked to be big and strong, it helped her to handle iron, brass and bronze. Still, now and then she wanted a little elegance...

The wealth of sorcerous knowledge I can import to the world, compared to your own transient beauty and skill, should recompense.

All last night, indeed, Saffiro had been dreaming of Flavian or Mercurio, and of a prolonged and curiously stimulating duel, which neither won, and during which both displayed great skill, while an increasing fascination and respect grew between them, to the point of their exchanging poetic couplets or cunning puns over the snick and glitter of the blades.

Belief is not a required component of ability.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely

What's talent but the ability to get away with something?

After breakfast I spent an hour cleaning my revolver and trying my skill at a target. Jane shook her head, probably thinking that bullets were vain against demonic powers. But Perdita was hugely delighted with the shining little instrument and wanted it for a plaything; women of all ages will play with death! ("Absolute Evil")

Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

we find only one tool, neither created nor invented, but perfect: the hand of man.

Un artesano que desempeña perfectamente su función es indudablemente superior a un rey que se desvíe y no esté a la altura de su dignidad

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.