Quotes About Skill

When you're a combat pilot, you believe you're the best in the air. If you do, you're not cocky, you're combat-ready. If you don't, you'd better find another line of work.

Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.

had a flair for the narrative

He is not concerned with arguments to establish a position, as in much traditional philosophy. Rather, he is teaching a skill that is critical and destabilizing, seeking to fracture the artificial unities we construct with our minds, so that we can see differences.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

A starship is a weapon, but it's the crew that makes it deadly -Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Storie—

To win the lottery once may be evidence of luck or skill; to win it repeatedly is evidence of skill.

people on average prefer to bet on their own judgment over an equally probable chance event when they consider themselves competent about the event being judged.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Getting your education is an advantage you have.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Excellence does not require perfection.

There is no excellence in archery without great labour.