Quotes About Skill

It is so tenuous, so fragile, the life of the playhouses. He often thinks that, more than anything, it is like the embroidery on his father's gloves: only the beautiful shows, only the smallest part, while underneath is a cross-hatching of labour and skill and frustration and sweat.

Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains. I like to fly, not to kill.

Within the Nation, he [Malcolm] explained that his purpose was to present the views of Elijah Muhammad and to challenge distortions about their religion. In fact, his objectives were to turn upside down the standard racial dialectic of black subordination and white supremacy, and to show off his rhetorical skill at the expense of white authorities and Negro integrationists (185).

Within the Nation, he [Malcolm] explained that his purpose was to present the views of Elijah Muhammad and to challenge distortions about their religion. In fact, his objectives were to turn upside down the standard racial dialectic of black subordination and white supremacy, and to show off his rhetorical skill at the expense of white authorities and Negro integrationists.

Antes que poeta hubiera preferido ser un buen banderillero

un partido de fútbol, esa forma de guerra más sofisticada, que exige que las ideas lleguen a los pies.

talent, in both cases, is greatest when it coincides with a taste for truth—which, in short, is comforting.

Entirely too many people mistake confidence for competence.

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

It was true that Odette played vilely, but often the most memorable impression of a piece of music is one that has arisen out of a jumble of wrong notes struck by unskilful fingers upon a tuneless piano.

With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity

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.

Beauty cannot be forced. It alone decides when it will come and sometimes it is the last thing we expect and the very last thing to arrive. Creative artists know this well. Great skill and inspiration set the context or scene where beauty might emerge. But it is not the mind of the artist alone that can determine whether beauty will arrive or not.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Quality is more important than quantity as it is always the result of intelligent effort

to some of the best and wisest artists among ourselves, it may not be always possible to explain what pretty things they are making … the very perfection of their art is in their knowing so little about it

He spent more time laying pipe than laying tile, if you catch my drift.

Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.