Quotes About Skill

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.

I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

Once you understand what excellence is all about... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.

All excellence is equally difficult.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

I can do small things in a great way.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.

The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.