Quotes About Skill

When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience.

You can get good at something just by working hard at it. If you've got some talent and you work hard at it, you can get really, really good at it. But excellence, peak performance, being the best you can be at something—that doesn't happen without coaching.

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write .

Sometimes you had to make the animals perform.

achieving durable happiness as a way of being is a skill. It requires sustained effort in training the mind and developing a set of human qualities, such as inner peace, mindfulness, and altruistic love.

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanced and truly compassionate human being?

Happiness is a skill, a manner of being, but skills must be learned. As the Persian proverb has it: "Patience turns the mulberry leaf into satin.

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

Age is not always the best judge of competence.

Oh, yes!" said Arianna. "You're really good! One of the best.

General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability.

Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with his wisdom!

No competence is required to be a scarecrow!

The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance!

The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!

I think Peter Falk had one real eye and one glass eye, and having one eye was probably better for shooting pool than having two.

An armed fool could be more dangerous than an experienced shooter.

So that was what she'd "do" in this time. She'd be a fiancée. Sort of. A mystery fiancée. Apparently, she'd discovered a useful skill all by herself.

Sure, I'm flamboyant. I can afford to be--I'm a damn good lawyer. You've got to ring the bell to get the people into the temple.

There may be better lawyers than I, but so far I haven't come across any of them in court.