Quotes About Skill

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Abbiamo bisogno di persone brave, non solo di brave persone.

That is very much like asking: "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Moreover, events often move too quickly to allow for precise calculation; leaders have to make judgments based on intuitions and hypotheses that cannot be proven at the time of decision. Management of risk is as critical to the leader as analytical skill.

The wrong place to start is to hire familiar people who are in your comfort zone—good buddies, but not the best in their skill set. Such people are difficult to fire and hard to manage.

Më pëlqen të operuarit, prandaj u bëra kirurg, por jam i përgjegjshëm se truri nuk shërohet njësoj si kockat dhe muskujt

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like it`s all you know how to do.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

It all depends with how much judgment and knowledge the thing's done.

a French dexterity combined with Italian acting.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

Finally, who can say of a crude, ill-decorated pot that it represents the end stage of a craft in decline rather than the first faltering steps of a new industry, or the fumbling of an apprentice in a mature stage of an established one, or even the blunder of a highly competent craftsman with a hangover?

Magic was wild feelings, the kind that escaped out of you and into the world and changed things. There was a lot of skill to it, and a lot of learning, and a lot of work, but that was where the power began: the power to enchant the world.

The study of magic is not a science, it is not an art, and it is not a religion. Magic is a craft. When we do magic, we do not wish and we do not pray. We rely upon our will and our knowledge and our skill to make a specific change to the world.

With the caveat that it is much more difficult and much more dangerous and much more interesting to be a magician than it is to be a carpenter.

Magic, Quentin discovered, wasn't romantic at all. It was grim and repetitive and deceptive. And he worked his ass off and became very good at it.

In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that if you put in 10,000 hours that you will become an expert, but there aren't any cases where someone has achieved world-class mastery without it! So the time spent at the activity is indeed the most important and influential factor.