Quotes About Skill

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.

At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

One thing I've been doing since I was a little kid and that's score touchdowns so if somebody needs somebody to get in the red zone and do some work, I could probably still do that pretty well.

It's so much fun! Girls just think that it is all about popularity, but it's not. You have to work really hard if you want to be good at cheerleading. It's just like any other sport!

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

If you're funny, you can find a stage to get on. If you're good, you'll start to get work and eventually get paid.

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].

If it really made sense to "let the club do the work," you'd just say, "Driver, wedge to the green, one-putt," and walk to the next tee.

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.

It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when you finish the project, since you always feel like you've learned something.

Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.