Quotes About Skill

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

By the work one knows the workman.

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.

On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.

It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.