Quotes About Skill

I've always had an obsession with rackets.

I shoot occasionally, but I'm no gun expert.

Well, almost nothing, or depending on your generosity of spirit, hardly anything, for he could hitch an ox and plough a furrow straight or thatch a roof or hone his scythe until the edge was bright and sharp or tell by a sniff of the breeze what the day would bring or with a glance when a grape was sweet and ready.

Give me a cuckoo clock and a Sep Winner's Self-Instructor for the Banjo, and I'll join you.

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Zaten romanc? olmak kendi duygular?n?zdan bir baÅŸkas?n?n duygular? gibi ve bir baÅŸkalar?n?n duygular?ndan da kendi duygular?n?z gibi söz edebilme hüneridir.

El talento de un ilustrador se basa en estar absolutamente atento a la belleza del instante presente y tomárselo todo en serio, hasta el menor detalle, mientras al mismo tiempo es capaz de retirarse un paso y, como si lo observara en un espejo, introducir entre él y el mundo, que tan en serio se toma a sí mismo, su habilidad y la distancia que le proporciona la ironía.

had once managed in half a day to replace the entire engine on a 1995 Mercedes with one from some old wreck, doing such a flawless job that the returning owner left the valet an especially large tip for having cleaned the car for him.

Orison Swett Marden

efficiency never has to go begging for advancement; the man that masters his trade goes to the front.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it. That would be as dumb as being proud of having two legs, or speaking a language, or pooping.

I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

If you can't do it twice, you can't do it at all.

Sólo hay una cosa que hará que dejen de odiarte. Y esa cosa es ser tan bueno en todo lo que hagas que no puedan ignorarte. Les he dicho que eres el mejor. ¡Mejor que lo seas!

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

Er war schon lange der Beste.

Resa stroked the dried flower-heads. 'They obey you,' she said to the Prince, when the women had gone again. 'Why?' 'Oh, because they've chosen me as their leader,' replied the Prince. 'And because I'm a very good knife-thrower.

He was a person for study as well as action; and hence, notwithstanding the difficulties through which he passed in his youth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages: the Dutch tongue was become almost as vernacular to him as the English; the French tongue he could also manage; the Latin and the Greek he had mastered; but the Hebrew he most of all studied, "Because," he said, "he would see with his own eyes the ancient oracles of God in their native beauty.