Quotes About Skill

Picking up new languages is fairly easy since it's my passion.

I do a devilish borscht, and I'm very good at pickles. I used to make jars and jars of sweet-and-sour pickled cucumbers.

When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

Only great players can have two shots for one ball, like Tendulkar does, and a big reason is that he picks the ball very early.

You watch some of the stuff Cesaro does in the ring; with his size, the way he moves around the ring, the moves he hits, the way he picks up guys twice his size. It's just a different level.

When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.

I'm pretty proud of my pie crust. I think I've finally learned how to manhandle it just enough.

I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

I hustled my way through college playing pinball.