Quotes About Skill

Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend.

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

Five,' she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady. 'Five?' Gabriel echoed blankly. 'My rating,' she said, and smiled at him. 'Your skill and technique may, perhaps, require work, but the native talent is certainly there. What you require is practice.' 'And you are willing to be my tutor?' 'I should be very insulted if you chose another,' Cecily said, and leaned up to kiss him again.

All power, including the collar, is no more than a tool: like the knives you wear, or the guns so favored in this time. In the hands of an ethical person with training and skill they serve a noble and useful purpose. They protect the innocent, keep the world safe. It is in the hands of the untrained and unskilled, or morally corrupt, that power becomes dangerous.

Understanding's not enough. Understanding's from outside; merely a function of the mind. [. . .] To enter, that's the secret. To become the bridge, to crawl into its sap, to sway with it, to rot over centuries as its heartwood rots. When you are the bridge you will know what the bridge knows. It takes time. A lifetime. And skill.

I've practiced "alone" a lot, and I'm good at it.

There's more to bagging groceries than you think. It's not as easy as it looks. There's a lot to know.

You can't teach somebody to do something if you don't even know how to do it yourself.

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.

Of course she cheated. Don't be silly. Snow White spent half her growing years shuffling cards for no one. She can cut false and she can cut true, but she wasn't going to lose when it counted.

The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him.

He merely added that often you don't do what you would have liked to do in life, but that what you'd like to do isn't necessarily what you would be good at doing. Which, needless to say, is true.

I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player. I would go to the elementary school by my house and shoot thousands of shots all day, every day.

For making mistakes is not an exercise of competence, nor is the commission of slips an exercise of knowledge how; it is a failure to exercise knowledge how.

Drill dispenses with intelligence, training develops it.

The spectators applaud his skill at seeming clumsy, but what they applaud is not some extra hidden performance executed 'in his head'.

The difference between a normal person and an idiot is not that the normal person is really two persons while the idiot is only one, but that the normal person can do a lot of things which the idiot cannot do;

E poi che cosa credeva, il signorino Bruno, che fare il calzolaio non presentasse dei lati interessanti? Qualsiasi attività umana ne presenta. Basta esercitarla con passione, riuscire a conoscerla nei suoi segreti.

Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.

There are several advanced classes in the university of liars. Golfers and fishermen rank very high in the sporting grades

Playing may be easy, but playing the right way is not. ("Interpretations," A Cultural History of the Theatre in the Middle Ages, ed. Jody Enders, (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), 136.)

complete submergence of the acquired skill in the subconscious.

Kellerman revealed herself slowly. She first threw the diablo (a form of juggling)

When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football.