Quotes About Skill

We're trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the missions, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes that we're the one who needs to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

The best pilots usually have the most unflattering nicknames. The pilots I know say they don't generally have much confidence in anyone with a call sign like Maverick or Viper. If you meet one named Outhouse or Dumpster Diver, however, it's a safe bet he's good to go.

Give me a golf ball and I can hit that sucker a country mile. That's because golf is a game that requires practice, practice, and more practice.

It had been a surprise—and yeah, okay, a pleasure—to realize how very good he was at being bad.

There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The two skills of the warrior are compassion and insight. Compassion is easy - it arises spontaneously from an open heart. Insight or discernment requires more skill. We have to choose our battles.

Practise make it perfect!

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

Every pro starts off as an amateur. There's not one top artist, athlete, writer, scientist, architect, entrepreneur, programmer, musician, or potter who enters the field at the top of her game. To begin anything new or learn anything new means you will be a neophyte. You must go from outsider to insider. Respect that. Embrace it. Be willing to suck.

You have to learn the difference between a man's looks, and how fine he shoots. They've never been one and the same.

A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you're convinced that cooking is drudgery, you're never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

Take care to chop the onion fine.

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.