Quotes About Skill

I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."

If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.

I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well!

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

Janet's a serious racer with some good race-car stuff. She can get the job done. I respect her as a racer.

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

You've got to take some chances and know when you're beat and know how to get certain advantages.

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

Games give you a chance to excel.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

The quickness of his hand was determined by the quickness of his eye.

Any weapon's only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.

One of the most fulfilling things about programming is that you can turn your dreams into reality. The amount of skill you need varies with your dreams, but generally if you want to develop a certain type of application or service, you can give it a try. Most software comes from necessity or a dream, so keeping your eyes and ears open for things you might want to develop is important.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

3. Individual self-development in large measure depends on the focus on contributions. The man who asks of himself, "What is the most important contribution I can make to the performance of this organization?" asks in effect, "What self-development do I need? What knowledge and skill do I have to acquire to make the contribution I should be making? What strengths do I have to put to work? What standards do I have to set myself?" 4.