Quotes About Skill

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

A man should be what he can do.

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

We're all nerds now. We might as well get good at it.

What is a game but a drill that's dressed up in colorful clothing?" Dojo said.

Do you know about lock picking?" "I'm sure it's like sex." "I'm sure it's not like sex." "How would you know? Everything's like sex. It's the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

The writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

Use a gun that works every time. As George Washington said, 'All skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket.

A sculptor will more easily extract a beautiful statue from a piece of rough marble than from one that has been badly blocked out by someone else.

For the price of a few battleships, we could give you a healthy nation. We have the knowledge, the skill, the material resources; but those in power prefer to use them for destroying their competitors and safeguarding their own profits.

Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do.

I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night.

Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering.

As I get more experienced, I love the idea of going into big mountains and doing big climbs. But the problem is, it's getting more dangerous, especially alpine climbing.