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Quotes About Skill

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
~ Junior Seau
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
~ Edward de Bono
Accomplishments have no color.
~ Leontyne Price
Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.
~ Jim Rohn
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
~ Lionel Messi
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
~ Confucius
Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.
~ Robert Breault
Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.
~ Dan Harris
The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.
~ Jill Konrath
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
~ Michael Caine
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.
~ Sasha Alexander
Acting is easier than skating in ia way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
~ Tara Lipinski
I don't know hardly any of the players who have the in-between game like me, who can go to any position on the court.
~ Oscar Robertson
A task which seems difficult, can be done with adequate training.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.
~ Peter Jackson
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.
~ Andres Segovia
The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
~ Prince
I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.
~ Julian Bream
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
~ Tom Waits
If I don't practice for a day, I know it. If I don't practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don't practice for three days, the public knows it.
~ Louis Armstrong
The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
~ Jack Brymer
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
~ Mark Twain
One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It's because we're different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.
~ Tommy Emmanuel