Quotes About Skill

Strings glared at his new corporal. 'Where'd you learn that skill?' The man shrugged. 'Don't know. Don't like getting hit.' 'Well, do you ever counter-attack?' Tarr frowned. 'Sure. When they're tired.

Barring the necessary brains, of course," Kruppe said, "which is my true skill—though one such as Coll would never understand such abilities, alien as they are to him.

the truth of imagination: that it was a weapon the mind drew at every turn, yet as deadly to its wielder as to its conjured foes. Wisdom arrived as one's skill with that weapon grew – we fight every battle with our imaginations: the battles within, the battles in the world beyond. This is the truth of command, and a warrior must learn command, of oneself and of others.

Anyone who has mastered a weapon – truly mastered it – is a humble man or woman.

The flipper bat was quite a breakthrough because it gave the player a true means of exercising and developing skill. You could aim at targets now, rather than in the old days when you popped the ball up and just shook the shit out of the table and hoped that it went in the right hole or hit the right thing. The use of the flipper bat is probably the greatest breakthrough ever in pinball. —Eddie

qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity.

Burrell Smith, the designer of the Macintosh computer, said it as well as anyone in one of the sessions at the first Hacker Conference: "Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

The best always make it look easy.

My friend would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

All you need is the will and the skill

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to known where the limits are.

Ays felt as if he was made of glass, some brittle substance, and the laughter cracked him. He felt the power of his skill drain out from his body, out like thin, rancid liquour down through the cracks on the floor.

The artisans are creatures of artifice; very shallow individuals.

A man's screech should exceed his rasp, or what's a violin for?

The Power of Forgiveness Research shows that practicing forgiveness will make you happier, improves your health, strengthens relationships. In terms of it being a skill, forgiveness is probably one of the most challenging to learn. It's right up there with acceptance, unconditional love.

A family meeting is a procedure, and it requires no less skill than performing an operation.

Gone are the days of just containing through the middle, gone are the days of just soaking up pressure. You've got to be able to take wickets.

It's important to be a soccer player in the sense of the whole vision - if you put me at forward, I can do it, or if you put me in midfield, I can do it.

If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.

I grew up playing soccer and it's definitely my first love.

As a professional soccer player, I need to get touches on the ball every day, and obviously it's a lot easier to do that with a team than to motivate yourself to do it by yourself.

I'm a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that's because I didn't do that. If I'd focused more on that when I was a kid, it would've been so helpful. It took me, like, halfway through college to feel comfortable with the ball.