Quotes About Skill

I always knew from books and shows that the lives of circus artists are not easy, but spending time and learning from them made me realise the amount of effort they put in and how they constantly jostle between life and death.

Spider and heights are much easier than beating a man at the Ally Pally, any day of the week!

I'm able to be able to achieve certain things that others aren't - whether it's a reaction time or the idea of a coffee that's about to be spilled and I'm able to grab it before anyone else or whatever it is.

For me the trickiest thing is figuring out the spin and loft.

The good kind of spin - backspin - comes from hitting the ball cleanly, then making a divot after impact.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

I generally have been a good player of spin.

The chance of messing up and falling significantly increases when you're flipping through the air three times while spinning and trying to grab your skis.

Bowling was my natural skill. I didn't know how I was doing it, but I was spinning it miles and bamboozling people.

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

As footballers, we do get lazy sometimes and take the ball with our preferred foot to control it, but that split second of controlling it with your left foot and playing with your right can make all the difference in creating a chance or scoring a goal.

I played with Romario. Sometimes you think he's sleeping, then in one split second he's scoring. It's a big quality. That means a lot of concentration for defenders. He's always fast, always on the line of sight. That's his best quality.

There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.

You make a 2-10 split pretty often when you bowl as much as I do.

Single matches, I feel, have always been the ones where I can shine more. Three-way, four-way, you have to split your attention with some other guys, and it can be totally great, but when you get into a battle royal with 20 or 30 other guys, it's just so different from what your agenda is when it's one on one competition.

I can sing, I can act, my physical comedy is on point. I can do the splits.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.

My work has spoken for itself, and I've been offered work purely on merit.

They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

The champion makes his own luck.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.