Quotes About Skill

We knew we wanted the 'magic' in our show to be different than the typical wand-wielding spell-casting fare. For us, it had to be natural and physical, with a source and rules and limitations - and most importantly it had to be a skill rather than just a power, something that a practitioner had to learn and strive for.

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet.

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

I'm great at fake typing but in real life terrible.

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.

On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.

Mike Tyson is a good boxer, but he is not the best fighter. I am the best fighter.

Few fighters reach Mike Tyson's level, of course.

In theatre, the uglier you are, the better actor you are.

I don't like to show off; if I have to save a ball in an ugly way, fine.

The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.

I think the ultimate compliment that someone can give you is that you're a technician.

I want to become the ultimate centre forward. I want to be able to play on the left, on the right, and down the middle.

To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.

'The Ultimate Fighter' has found lots of great talent.

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

Best move is probably the flying knee I used in the Ultimate Fighter semi-final v Ross Pointon in 2006.

Happiness doesn't just happen. It must be pursued. And if the pursuit of the 'ultimate currency' of happiness helps us choose occupations that confer present and future benefit, and these choices, in turn, motivate us to succeed, this strikes me as perhaps the most powerful non-cognitive skill of all.

Ultimately, it's your talent that counts.

Ultimately, the best driver will always do something special, whatever the rules and whatever the regulations. Same thing with the teams.

Whenever people want to talk about how hard it is to be an actor, I want to go, 'Um, it's hard to be a baby-heart surgeon.'

I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

Truly accomplished artists are humble and unaware of their abilities.