Quotes About Skill

I never went to acting school; when someone expounds on motivation and all that stuff, I don't understand it. I was just lucky to be able to do what I did. When I started, people said I was very natural, which I guess is difficult for a lot of people to be.

Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.

A hammer looks like a useful tool to a carpenter; the nail has a different impression altogether.

what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

On the other hand, I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

Politics, not skill, now dominated the highest levels of military decision-making.

To a man, professional soldiers despised terrorists, and each would dream about getting them in an even-up-battle; the idea of the Field of Honor had never died for the real professionals. It was the place where the ultimate decision was made on the basis of courage and skill, on the basis of manhood itself, and it was this concept that marked the professional soldier as a romantic, a person who truly believed in the rules.

If you're really good, they'd taught him at Quantico, you don't have to be arrogant.

A superior fighter pilot is made up of one part skill, one part attitude, one part aggression, and one part madness.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

to perform without a net is ecstasy. Papa Phom had often reminded her, To perform without focus is fatal.

To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

When asked about his photographic techniques, Arthur "Weegee" Fellig, a photojournalist from the 30s and 40s, answered, "f/8 and be there.

don't spend money on high-end equipment before you gain the experience and learn to plan a shot.

But ability yields to deliberate, organized practice. The brain is the most expansive organ we have; it really does change. You learn something and your brain changes.

Most other front gardens when planted with flowers looked both formal and artificial. Judith Haymaker, for instance, had put in daffodil and hyacinth bulbs so that they came up in rigid rows, a sight English women would have smiled at. While plentiful, Mrs Reed's flowers had a randomness about them that reminded Honor of coming upon primroses or anemones in the woods. They were just there, as if they always had been. It took real skill to remove the gardener's hand from the garden.

Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways.

A weapon can usually be turned against you, if you don't know how to use it.

You can teach someone a skill but you can't teach them spirit.

F___k being a script kiddie if you can avoid it — be a hacker.