Quotes About Skill

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Los juegos de azar hay que considerarlos como estériles para la cultura. Ninguna riqueza aportan ni al espíritu ni a la vida. Pero otra cosa ocurre cuando la porfía exige destreza, habilidad, conocimientos, valor y fuerza.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

In general, our generals were out generalled.

My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. That is to say, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

En ningún caso, solía insistir, comprendían los magos necesariamente su arte, a pesar de que la experiencia lo había llevado a un par de conclusiones generales sobre el tema. Por ejemplo, que cada vez que aprendía algo nuevo sobre sus poderes, esos poderes disminuían, o en todo caso, quedaban alterados.

Good things happen to a team when a player takes the place where he adds the most value. Great things happen when all the players on the team take the role that maximizes their strengths—their talent, skill, and experience.

Better players make you a better player.

People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development.

Everyone is important, but everyone isn't equal. The person with greater experience, skill, and productivity in a given area is more important to the team in that area.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

We all have a family member who think they're a professional photographer.

Flirting is a womans trade, one must keep in practice.

That LIKE A BOSS moment when you turn to the exact page in a book your teacher tells you too.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Design is something you have to put your hand to.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.