Quotes About Skill

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

So long as the new moon returns in heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long will the fascination of archery keep hold in the hearts of men.

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.

Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

One thing you never hear is "Man that guy is good at badminton".

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.