Quotes About Skill

A general "law of least effort" applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.

What you love to do, you will learn to do well.

I actually dealt blackjack for a summer.

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.

If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

I grew up like Athena — covered with playing cards instead of armor — and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

Professionally, I have no age.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.