Quotes About Skill

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!

I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.

It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.