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Quotes About Skill

Una persona che sa scrivere una lunga lettera con facilità non può scrivere male.
~ Jane Austen
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
~ Jane Austen
to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.
~ Jane Austen
El que está dotado de la capacidad de hacer algo con rapidez, siempre la valora mucho, y en muchos casos sin prestar atención alguna a la imperfección de la ejecución.
~ Jane Austen
La capacidad de hacer algo con presteza es siempre muy elogiada por su poseedor, quien a menudo no advierte la imperfección que lo acompaña.
~ Jane Austen
Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
~ Jane Austen
If you shoot a marble outside the circle, you get a point," Mr. D explained. "The player with the most points wins. I used to be pretty good.
~ Jane O'Connor
You should see me work my magic in leather Ranger
~ Janet Evanovich
He had a lot of muscle and a skill level somewhere between Batman and Rambo.
~ Janet Evanovich
What I lack in expertise I make up for with desperation and tenacity, because I only get paid when I catch someone.
~ Janet Evanovich
I spent as much time on the rifle range as I spend with my knife in the peanut butter jar, I'd be a crack shot.
~ Janet Evanovich
Yeah. My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.
~ Janet Evanovich
I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.
~ Janet Fitch
A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.
~ Ruggiero Ricci
What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.
~ Joshua Foer
You can't follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
Unlike GGG, who just boxed Steve Rolls who was ranked about 81 in the world, I'm fighting real guys.
~ Demetrius Andrade
It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.
~ Narendra Modi
There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
~ Ian McShane
Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.
~ Travis Bradberry
We know Messi is the best in the world. That means he is unpredictable, so you have to keep focused.
~ Paulo Gazzaniga
Messi is really unpredictable. He's head-and-shoulders above everyone. Undeniably.
~ Sergio Busquets
As for Iniesta, he does things in training and in games that I've never seen before. He is an example to follow. You think he might touch the ball four times and yet he only makes one touch. He's unpredictable.
~ Paulinho
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair.
~ David Duchovny