Quotes About Skill

The special skill of esoteric Buddhism is transmutation by right view and pure perception, using all appropriate means for training. For example, eating food is not itself a Buddhist practice, but if one uses it as a means of training, it becomes a Buddhist training in transforming one's daily life as Buddhist practice.

Tell me about someone who is better than you in an area that really matters to you." Look for the candidate to demonstrate a genuine appreciation for others who have more skill or talent. Humble people are comfortable with this. Ego-driven people often are not.

For all the talk about hiring for fit, there is still too much emphasis on technical skills and experience when it comes to interviewing and selection. And this happens at all levels. When push comes to shove, most executives get enamored with what candidates know and have done in their careers and allow those things to overshadow more important behavioral issues. They don't seem to buy into the notion that you can teach skill but not attitude.

She is skilled at communicating the 'context' for her comments with the goal of ensuring understanding.

At that time I attached a perhaps undue importance to staying alive, and I became moderately proficient with both the pistol and the small-sword.

When you get down to it, what matters is practice, will and a certain amount of skill. Capacity is a small matter, but if everything else is equal, capacity will win out. That's why we want magazines with lots of bullets in them.

A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple weeks. A mediocre programmer over the same period will generate zero or even neg- ative wealth (e.g. by introducing bugs). This is why so many of the best programmers are libertarians.

Good design looks easy. Like great athletes, great designers make it look easy. Mostly this is an illusion.

Empathy is probably the single most important difference between a good hacker and a great one.

The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones.

hackers are makers rather than scientists, the right place to look for metaphors is not in the sciences, but among other kinds of makers. What else can painting teach us about hacking?

Dad determined when the pork lard was hot enough for frying by dropping a match into it; if the match lit, the lard was hot enough.

You must also understand that with muscle memory, at least two to three thousand repetitions are necessary to help master a simple skill.

As noted earlier, current theory states that it takes two thousand to three thousand repetitions to master a physical act or develop physical "muscle memory." I believe it takes an equal amount of "mental muscle memory" to ingrain a thought process or act.

We all know that a vast proportion of travel is accumulated nuisance; but if boredom or awfulness is handled with skill and concrete detail, it is funnier and truer than the sunniest prose.

To become really good at anything,you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive

Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.

Each arrow leaves a memory in your heart, and it is the sum of those memories that will make you shoot better and better.

Girevoy sport, on the other hand, is a working class sport. Kettlebells are cheap, no platform is required, and almost anyone can master the skills in a short period of time from a book or a video.

The confidence of amateurs is the envy of professionals.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

the secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. to know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.