Quotes About Skill

A long time ago the lightening was practicing Something I thought was easy

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

Skill is a function of chance. It's an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in the industry as they can.

George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.

The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it.

The pride of the digital age is not just in the possession of innovative tools but the ability to skillfully connect with humans behind them

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

Confidence is the public face of competence.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.