Quotes About Skill

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

To every man according to his ability.

He gets a good hold on the paintbrush, then confidently has the ladder removed.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Christabel Pankhurst

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all.

The way you get better at playing football is to play football.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.