Quotes About Skill

A good marksman may miss.

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.

Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

If someone is trying to skip the struggle - which is the creative job - our machines today, the technology that we have, can help the person, but it is only momentary. On the other hand, if you are creative, you have the skill, and you are hardworking, technology can only make you superior.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

I'm just trying to be the best basketball player I can be, you know, move the ball.

I have always been an attacking bowler, but I am trying my best to learn every day.

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

I'm a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.

A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments - you have to do it in tune.

No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can't put together a decent tune that someone can sing to or feel some sort of emotion from.

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice.

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.

I'm quite good on the harmonica and can get a tune out of most musical instruments, so long as the tune is 'Oh Susannah.'