Quotes About Skill

He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiece.

But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.

Per impadronirsi di un cinghiale ci vuole scienza di cacciatore e forza di cani.

You'd be surprised at what I can do.

Madelaine: I guess it's up to you to carve the turkey. Angel: Come on, bro, show me how to carve up this bird. Francis: Start at the breast, Angel. God knows, you should know how to do that.

I would have been fine." "I couldn't take the chance." "Why not?" He hesitated. "Because as much as I hate to admit it, you're good at what you do. And we can't afford to lose someone who's good." " 'We'? " she repeated. He glanced around. "Père Clément. And others like him." "Forgers." "Shhhh," he said instantly.

Riding sidesaddle is not truly riding. It's ridiculous, is what it is. As if I couldn't properly sit a horse.

If you're going to be an expert in something, then you need to be an expert in all aspects of it. From what makes it work to what makes it desirable to what makes it flawed.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I'm worse at what I do best. And for this gift, I feel blessed.

Why, then?" I demand. "It is because, Miss Faber," says Mr. Peel, smiling one of his very rare smiles. "It is because you can swim." What?

And so you also see how no skill, no matter how lowly, is ever learned in vain.

In the still air the music lies unheard; In the rough marble beauty hides unseen; To make the music and the beauty needs The master's touch, the sculptor's chisel keen. Great Master, touch us with Your skillful hands; Let not the music that is in us die! Great Sculptor, hew and polish us; nor let, Hidden and lost, Your form within us lie!

I never cheat. I practice Gamesmanship - the art of winning games without actually cheating.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

It is the glory and the merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at all.

Let us not overstrain our abilities, or we shall do nothing with grace. A clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy.

The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.

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

Judging from the array of swords and axes and daggers and bows and other implements of killing and dismemberment that they carried around, she gathered that manual dexterity was an imperative. The better to kill you with, my dears.

La suerte no tiene nada que ver- respondió- se trata de fuerza e inteligencia

But she was such a fighter. She refused to mope and lose her dignity. And she did this by returning to what she knew best. By getting better at it.