Quotes About Skill

But asking a physicist to comment on smoking and cancer is like asking an Air Force captain to comment on the design of a submarine. He might know something about it; then again, he might not. In any case, he's not an expert.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Let the path be open to talent.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

It's pretty nice to be talented. If you are, enjoy, but it won't take you that far. Work takes you a lot further.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.

Confidence is that feeling that you can do something (or that you know something) so well you don't have to think about how to do it when you're doing it. That skill or knowledge is in you, it's part of you, and it will come out when needed if you let it.

Did you win your sword fight?" "Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world." "And you wrote the software." "Yeah. That, too," Hiro says.

The building of perceived value is probably the single most important selling skill in larger sales.

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

The French and Spanish ships were bigger and better armed, but the British were better sailors.

The ocean extends an invitation to the swimmer that it withholds from the person who has never learned to swim. With every skill we learn, the world reshapes itself to reveal greater possibilities.

The airplane was a complicated system encompassing many components, but to a skilled pilot it still had the intimate quality of a hand tool. The love that lays the swale in rows is also the love that parts the clouds for the stick-and-rudder man.

Conscious craft turned into unconscious routine. When

What looks like instinct is hard-won skill. Those changes in the brain don't happen through passive observation. They're generated through repeated confrontations with the unexpected.

How do you measure the expense of an erosion of effort and engagement, or a waning of agency and autonomy, or a subtle deterioration of skill?

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?' Anonymous

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)