Quotes About Skill

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

The ability to redefine failure as an opportunity to learn is a critical skill for any effective entrepreneur, and it is best to learn early.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

The true craftsman has a light in his eye that Money can't buy Hal Stebbins I read this once when I was Writing a children's story; a time when inspiration had struck...At that time I knew just what he meant...It was so true. Shirley Briggs

second model, that of a technical or trade school, would conceive the primary task of psychoanalytic education to be the learning of a clearly defined skill or trade, with no emphasis on artistic creativity. Teachers

The two men who were fencing were De Vigne and a smaller, slighter fellow; the one calm, cool, steady, and never at a disadvantage, the other, skilful indeed, but too hot, eager, and rapid: for in fencing, whether with the foils or the tongue, the grand secret is to be cool, since, in proportion to your tranquillity, grows your opponent's exasperation!

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Art lies by its own artifice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Magozzi did so, and they both listened to the media soundbite, delivered by a young male anchor just cutting his very white teeth on the early-morning news. His delivery was robotic, but he'd figure out the teleprompter after some more air time, learn to construct a believable façade of genuine feeling. Sociopaths were able to learn that skill, too, and if they could do it, this kid could.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

He was, she realised, quite graceful. The very idea surprised her. Male grace was a quality she'd never thought of beyond the ballroom; either a man could dance a quadrille with skill and without stepping on her feet or he could not. But here was another kind of grace altogether--and untrained grace, an instinctive animal grace.

Climbing is about two things: skill and trust. Skill can be taught, but you've got to have trust to get anywhere. I promise I won't let you fall.

You're fluent in a language once you can explain to someone—in that language—how to tie his shoes"? (I can.)

But where of the beginner it's only a move, for the master it becomes the first step in a long sequence. It's like the diference between two apparently identical musical notes that might being a nursery rhyme or a symphony.

Vous faites de la musique, Monsieur. Vous n'êtes pas musicien.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.