Quotes About Skill

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket

There is an art to entertaining a crowd. If you've got a bevy of hit songs, you can entertain by simply playing them one after another. If you're a knockout in size 28 jeans who can take away the breath of the females in the audience by simply walking on the stage, you're entertaining. But since I have never fallen into either category, I have had to rely on other attributes.

When I see them knit,' Terry said, 'I can almost call them feminine.' 'That doesn't prove anything,' Jeff promptly replied. 'Scotch shepherds knit --always knitting.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. —Bruce Lee

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

It turns out you have to be an apprentice in this world.

Ice hockey players can walk on water.

...if a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him...

Good tattoos aren't cheap and cheap tattoos aren't good.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Before the typewriter, this was a booming career path, as nearly every major business needed a competent and proficient penman on hand... during the golden age of penmanship (roughly 1860 to 1930).

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Amateurs work until they get it right. Professionals work until they can't get it wrong.

A surgeon should be young, a physician old.

How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete?

The best carpenters make the fewest chips.

A bad day woodworking is better than a good day working.

Good workmen never quarrel with their tools...

The wordsmith cuts saws for a living.

Communication with children should be based on respect and on skill; it requires (a) that messages preserve the child's as well as the parent's self-respect; and (b) that statements of understanding precede statements of advice or instruction. Eric,

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

You sap our self-confidence until we exist merely to court your approval (...) You keep us perpetually off balance, unpleasantly aware of our inferiority, and that's the whole secret of your skill and power.

Bowling is an art and I am an artist."