Quotes About Skill

You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.

Influential thinkers in the West have done an admirable job of cleaving apart excellence in technique from distinction in morality. We appreciate that a person can be highly skilled without being moral in the least; that a person can be ethical without having the requisite competence; and that many of us stand out neither in terms of excellence nor social responsibility.

Any time you get in an area that takes a great deal of skill, you'll find that the tendrils are much more sensitive. People talk about actors being temperamental, but that sort of thing is everywhere.

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.

He wasn't management, but that didn't mean he wasn't skilled. Quite the opposite, in Rebus's experience.

On the qualities required of naval officers, Roosevelt was outspoken: "They must have skill in handling the ships, skill in tactics, skill in strategy . . . the dogged ability to bear punishment, the power and desire to inflict it, the daring, the resolution, the willingness to take risks and incur responsibilities which have been possessed by the great captains of all ages, and without which no man can ever hope to stand in the front rank of fighting men.

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoe As he does for a polished mirror for the King.

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Intellectual: One who knows no craft.

Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to.

Es el orfebre quien puede evaluar el oro.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Intelectual: alguien que no conoce oficio.

Are you ignorant enough to expect horsemanship from blacksmiths?

Practica tu conocimiento, pues conocimiento sin práctica es un cuerpo sin vida.

Cuando el Hombre Superior hace algo digno de admiración, es una prueba de su Maestría, no el objeto de ella.

No tiene propósito alguno martillar hierro frío.

Si quieres convertirte en calígrafo, escribe, escribe y escribe.

Quienes no pueden, prueban. Quienes pueden no tienen que hacerlo.

El hábil artesano utiliza el mismo hierro para hacer una herradura que cuando construye un bruñido espejo para el rey.

Eres lo suficientemente ignorante para esperar equitación de un herrero?

The most skilled of writing always stems from that which is not so.