Quotes About Skill

All of us watch the man with the ball. Accordingly football has come to be thought of in terms of individuals. The artisans engaged in a manœuvre are forgotten because of the glory of the hero who actually completes the play.

There is no such thing as amateur art... You never yet made an artist by paying him well.

The good seaman is known in bad weather.

Long-continued practice is necessary to make any one a first-rate player at Battle-door and Shuttle-cock. As this game is an extremely noisy one, it ought never to be played near any one who is sick or happens to be subject to headaches. Like many other games, it is more agreeable when played in the open air.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

I care not a job about the technology of the art of dancing... All that concerns me is how beautifully or how expressively a dancer can dance...

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that my art is not above the ordinary.

There is one gift above all others that makes man unique among the animals, and it is the gift displayed everywhere here: his immense pleasure in exercising and pushing forward his own skill.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

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With a true masterpiece, there are no words required. Discourse is rendered redundant. That's why the work of a master transcends all notions of education, of class. It rises above the onlooker's understanding of what is considered good or bad, or right or wrong in the world of art. With the artist who has achieved mastery, skill, experience and knowledge are transparent, leaving only the message for all to see.

that Maurice had wanted her to spend time in a teaching capacity—she reminded herself that there was an element of truth in the tale. Maurice had often spoken to her of the importance of passing on knowledge, and of the skill involved in presenting ideas and facts in a manner that was engaging and made a lasting impression—whether the recipient of that knowledge was an employee, a student, or a child.

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream. Our dad used to say that." Dreams are in the head. But action creates growth, creates skill, creates excellence.

Most people are not truly talented at anything. However, most people can be pretty good at something.

In chess there's a saying: "Only the good players are lucky.

The kind of knowledge required in such endeavors is not deductive knowledge from first principles but rather what Greeks of the classical period called métis, a concept to which we shall return. Usually translated, inadequately, as "cunning," métis is better understood as the kind of knowledge that can be acquired only by long practice at similar but rarely identical tasks, which requires constant adaptation to changing circumstances.

Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years' experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience—twenty times.

There is all the difference in the world between knowing about and knowing how to do.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them").

It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.

Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.