Quotes About Skill

Daniel Kahneman has argued that this tendency to overconfidence is particularly strong among investors. More than most other groups, investors tend to exaggerate their own skill and deny the role of chance. They overestimate their own knowledge, underestimate the risks involved, and exaggerate their ability to control events.

Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.

That does not mean he is smarter than I am. I mean, can he draw a cat ?

Being smart doesn't mean being skilled at social interaction. No one ever said being a genius was easy.

Despite the meatiness of his fingers, Dominick showed himself to be a nimble texter.

In a world in transition, students and teachers both need to teach themselves one essential skill - learning how to learn.

Power radiated from the specter, power born of experience gained, skill acquired, battles survived, and enemies overcome. Power born of years of staying alive while others died.

These will be punishing, but you will come to love them. When you have mastered that, you will begin to train with weapons.

it didn't matter how hard you could swing a sword, if you couldn't hit anything.

Everything about him: the way he shot an arrow; the way he carved; the way he used a sword; even the way he walked with such fluid reasoned intent—they weren't separate things, separate abilities…they were all the same thing.

what is commonly thought luck is often merely the result of incessant practice.

Just because knowledge exists, doesn't mean people know how to use it .

A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.

How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don't know how to use it?' Not me, sir. Other people. They see the sword and don't attack me,' said Maladict patiently. Yes, but if they did, lad, you wouldn't be any good with it,' said the sergeant. No, sir. I'd probably settle for just ripping their heads off, sir. That's what I mean by protection, sir. Theirs, not mine. And I'd get hell from the League if I did that, sir.

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE And what's that? A SHARP EDGE.

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

Well, basically, there are two sorts of opera, said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever.

More than half the skill of writing lies in tricking the book out of your own head.

never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off

You're an interesting man, sergeant. You make enemies like a craftsman.

It's not gambling to play against someone who's no good. It's common sense.

Talent just defines what you do...It doesn't define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything

it wasn't the wearing of the hat that counted so much as having one to wear. Every trade, every craft had its hat.