Quotes About Skill

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it.

Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.

I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.

Hopefully, I want to play a little better than I did today.

The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can!

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

Be the best at what you're good at

My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain. . . . For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.

Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

It's what I lost. I could see him turning the sentence around in his head. Examining it as he would a wound or an illness. And I saw in his eyes the moment he realized that fixers like him and me can easily mend broken things. But we can't easily find lost things. Finding something you lost takes a different kind of skill.

people want children to be creative before they have any knowledge or skill to be creative with.

I know every arrow must count, and they do. In the eerie light,

It takes some adjusting from a bow to a gun, but by the end of the day, I've got the best score in my class.