Quotes About Skill

I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

I know it was wonderful, but I don't know how I did it.

What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

The work will teach you how to do it.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

It's good to play, and you must keep in practice.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber's.

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

The good composer is slowly discovered, the bad composer is slowly found out.

Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.