Quotes About Skill

Artistic skill, therefore, does not mean artistic perfection. It remains rather a continuing medium or reflection of some step in psychic development, the perfection of which is not to be found in shape and form, but must radiate from the human soul.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I put the mud on the wheel, I spun it, and I could work clay. It was a miracle. I could do clay without any thought, without any doubt. I knew nothing about clay and yet the skill came out of my hands. Clay was all I had—all that I was. Clay was all that was left of me. I was an animal that made pots.

It's all right to be a happy amateur. And it's all right to be truly gifted. But to be competent and middling bad at an artifice that you care about—that's a nightmare.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

If I've got a swing, I've got a shot.

I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was twelve. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are; if you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy.

And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished

Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest thyself a right good workmanlike workman, eh!

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

There is something rather sexy about men who knew exactly what they are talking about. Men who might not be conventionally attractive, but who are obviously highly competent at their jobs.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

and now she appeared a woman, beautiful, tall and skilled at

A maid, unmatch'd in manners as in face,Skill'd in each art, and crown'd with ev'ry grace:

Um médico, só por si, vale alguns homens.

Informationally linked microorganisms*29 possessed a skill exceeding the capacities of any supercomputer from Cray Research or Fujitsu. In a crisis, bacteria did not rely on deliverance via a random process like mutation, but instead unleashed their genius as genetic engineers.

And even a small amount of talent can go an appallingly long way, these days.

Bond liked fast cars and he liked driving them. Most American cars bored him. ... All the fun of driving had been taken out of them with the abolition of a gear-change... All effort had been smoothed away and all of that close contact with the machine and the road that extracts skill and nerve from the European driver.

Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.

But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill....

Our age could devise a passable replica of a human mind, but there was no one in our neighbourhood to fix a sash window, though a few had tried.

Good luck is a skill, and bad luck simply the product of poor choices and overlooked opportunities. In other words, tough luck.