Quotes About Skill

Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.

You have only seen the least of what I can do.

Playing the villain was the only thing he'd ever really excelled at.

So it's not as bad as it looks?" Call ventured. "Oh, no," she told him. "It's just as bad as it looks. But I'm very, very good at my job.

You have a skill. You can do something no one else can," Barron says. "Seriously. You know what's good about that? It's valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I said it was wasted on you? I was so right.

Apparently you can do lots of things very skilfully while asleep, Mr. Sharpe, but attending my class does not seem to be one of them.

You've only seen the least of what I can do.

There are two ways for mortals to become permanent subjects of the Court: marrying into it or honing some great skill—in metallurgy or lute playing or whatever. Not interested in the first, I have to hope I can be talented enough for the second.

My advice," says Val Moren, "is tgat you learn to juggle better than I did, seneschal.

What is sparring but a game of strategy,played at speed?

Some are good with pipes or paint. Some have skill in love. My talent is in making war. The only thing that has ever kept me awake was denying it

and I learned more at the hands of Carl Wilson than I learned from anybody else. He taught me a fuck of a lot of guitar playing. That man is a good guitar player.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

I learned embroidery," Kaede said, "But you can't kill anyone with a needle." "You can," Shizuka said offhandedly. "I'll show you one day.

But she was so proud of Nick's uninhibited sociability, the way he could walk straight into a party full of people they didn't know and stick his hand out to a stranger and say, "I'm Nick. This is my wife, Alice." It was as though he had an amazing skill, like playing a complicated musical instrument, that Alice could never hope to master.

It was as though he had an amazing skill, like playing a complicated musical instrument, that Alice could never hope to master.

It was like watching someone play the violin beautiffully. You couldn´t conceive how they did it.

She was back on her skates, twirling expertly

Chess isn't one of my favorites, it takes a cool calculating hatred to play well, and I'm not good at that.

It was a trick no one expected of an American, the combination of a good ear, a good memory, and an understanding of the rules of grammar, so that I appeared more of a prodigy than I was.

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

The human doesn't need long mathematical equations to hit a home run in baseball. The human body already understands the math involved and can do it with just some practice. Isn't that wonderful?