Quotes About Skill

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

Hobbies that demand skill, habits that set goals and limits, personal interests, and especially inner discipline help to make leisure what it is supposed to be—a chance for re-creation.

In many ways, competition is a quick way of developing complexity: "He who wrestles with us," wrote Edmund Burke, "strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

What counts is to set a goal, to concentrate one's psychic energy, to pay attention to the feedback, and to make certain that the challenge is appropriate to one's skill. Sooner or later the interaction will begin to hum, and the flow experience follows.

Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that's why meetings are so popular. People don't like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn...

Those that can, do; those that can't, teach; and those that can't teach, administrate.

The hard reality is that immersion works only when people are actually fluent in something.

Every good author has a trick, a great and mighty trick.

Do not say to yourself, "I've got a book in me!" (huge cliché anyway) and assume that means you are also competent to write a book.

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

The seed I would like to plant is that The Mystery, self-transcendence itself, might simply be the skill of truly having fun. Finding wisdom from a much deeper well than what we can create on our own. Being able to lose yourself in an experience, being able to savor the moment without attributing any context. Joy for joy's sake.

In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker.

You can tell whether a person plays or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not. Then the way they talk and act. If they act too hip, you know they can't play shit.

Competence can be a curse

In my heart, I believe that I am a passionate and intuitive cook who could make a five-course meal without even looking at a recipe. I feel I have the flash and charismatic personality of a famous chef, the fiery tenacity of Gordon Ramsay, and the soulful sexuality of Tom Colicchio. The problem is that I lack all basic skill. For instance, my dad had to come over to show me how to turn my oven on. It is sad when your hopes and your abilities do not line up. I

Invisibility is the best advantage. But if forced to a confrontation, Come out with all your skill.

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

Parrying a blow before it strikes, Giving a commission to one who is skillful.

See, their words endure in books, Open, read them, copy their knowledge, He who is taught becomes skilled. Don't be evil, kindness is good, Make your memorial last through love of you. Increase the [people], befriend the town,..

Fairacre children could handle tools, and had the plodding unhurried methods of the countryman that produce amazing results. Here was the perfect medium for their inborn skill. The golden sand was turned, raked, piled, patted and ornamented with shells and seaweed,

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.