Quotes About Skill

Football is the most entertaining game in the world to watch because it's end to end with lots of things happening.

My entire career has been behind the camera, and that's definitely where I'm most comfortable.

I've been playing basketball my entire life, so I feel comfortable doing what is asked of me.

I envy guys who can write funny.

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.

I felt like the best player on the court every night in college.

First, master your instrument. Then forget all that bullshit and play!

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.

Talent is only the starting point.

Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy, too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

When you gamble for tiles, you are skillful. When you gamble for your belt buckle, you begin to hesitate; and when you gamble for gold, you get confused. Your skill is the same, but you get cautious because you value something outside yourself. When you do this you become awkward inside." Lieh Tzu, Chapter 2

Su ánimo pérfido se expansionaba sobre todo con la cocina. Era excelente cocinando, ya que no le faltaba ni prontitud ni fantasía, cualidades principales para una cocinera.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.