Quotes About Skill

We would not even need a statistician; a second-rate engineer would do.

what they have is skill in getting promoted within a company rather than pure skills in making optimal decisions—we call that "corporate political skill.

There may be some differences in skills, but what truly separates the two is for the most part a single factor: luck. Plain luck.

I am not saying that Warren Buffett is not skilled; only that a large population of random investors will almost necessarily produce someone with his track records just by luck.

Their strength is extremely domain-specific

I may never know if Onassis was skilled or lucky, though I am convinced that his charm opened doors for him

But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write

But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it. Heuristics

But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.

the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.

for someone to be able to help me, he had to be both a practitioner and a researcher, with practice coming before research.

There is one world in which I believe the habit of mistaking luck for skill is most prevalent—and most conspicuous—and that is the world of markets. By

As equipment and machinery have become more sophisticated, the knowledge and skill required to operate them has risen accordingly.

Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.

Few secrets can escape an investigator who has opportunity and license to undertake such a quest and skill to follow it up.

First came the music. It comprised a variety of instruments, perhaps imperfectly adapted to one another, and played with no great skill; but yet attaining the great object for which the harmony of drum and clarion addresses itself to the multitude,—that of imparting a higher and more heroic air to the scene of life that passes before the eye.

Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the tip of his talon into different ways of approaching a keyhole. He never tired, and he ever gave up...because if there was any justice in the universe, he wouldn't be trapped here forever.

It's becoming more and more common for people to get vanity transplants. You want a new skill? Buy it instead of learn it. Can't do a thing with you hair? Get a new scalp. Operators are standing by.

Mom could have been a great sniper if she had chosen that line of work.

I'm not usually good, but when i am, i'm goddamn good.

Nonetheless, ecologists and archaeologists increasingly agree that the destruction of Native Americans also destroyed the ecosystems they managed. Throughout the eastern forest the open, park-like landscapes observed by the first Europeans quickly filled in. Because they did not burn the land with the same skill and frequency as its previous occupants, the forests grew thicker. Left untended, maize fields filled in with weeds, then bushes and trees.

She could ace the North Circular in a jacked Toyota Tercel faster than Sabine Schmitz could lap the Nürburgring in a Transit van, and the only times the plod had got on her tail she'd left them, well, plodding.

I was always a killer. It was my skill, and they'd taught me well. She taught me love.

Statistics is like a high-caliber weapon: helpful when used correctly and potentially disastrous in the wrong hands.