Quotes About Skill

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.

You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

I am really good at making Top Ramen. I also love it when my mom makes vegetarian lasagna for me.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.

Practice makes polish and polish makes money.

Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.