Quotes About Skill

In The Go-Go's, my philosophy is that I contribute whatever the song requires. I never think, 'What can I put in here to show off the latest trick that I just picked up?' What I think is, 'What's required from me as a drummer to make this a better song?'

Any time you are inverting yourself three times in a single air trick, you have to be cautious to execute properly and avoid injury.

I was a magician's assistant and had to go in the box that they put the swords through, and there's no trick to it. You literally have to dodge the swords.

Bumrah's action is a bit awkward, so you don't see his slower balls. He can trick you with pace. He is a lot quicker than he looks.

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.

If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.

I actually sing horribly, but I used to dance pretty good. I was a gymnast, and you can usually use those gymnastic tricks with dance. Plus, they're so much fun to do. That wasn't really a big part of my career. It was just a phase.

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

When you do a 'messa di voce,' that means you start soft, you crescendo into loud - and then you go back to soft again. Some people call it circus tricks, but in bel canto, it's really written into the music.

When you're up on the hill, and you know you're as strong as you can be, you're more willing and able and confident to go and do bigger and harder and more technical tricks.

That's probably one of the most challenging things about our sport is walking the line between doing the tricks that you know how to do that are safe and pushing yourself.

My favorite player growing up was Julius Erving, because I loved the way he played above the rim, all of the tricks with the ball, big hands, and just phenomenal showmanship.

These technical flicks and tricks come naturally to me and I don't really think about them. I did a backheel against Udinese and the coach would've strangled me if he could have!

Contest skating is about figuring out the hardest tricks you can do that you can also land every time. It doesn't matter if it's a kickflip back lip or a kickflip front board or a hardflip. Any trick you feel really confident in and you can land any time, those are the tricks you bring to the contest.

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

I'm always trying to add new tricks, work on my fundamentals, and get better and improve.

Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be great, but then it's got to be delivered. It's a tricky thing to do, and it takes a lot of work.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.