Quotes About Skill

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Three women bonding over household chores—my mother would be pleased if she could see us. That thought hardened my resolve that next week, some of the men would do cleanup. It would be good for them to expand their skill set.

And it had left me with a certain skill for managing enraged werewolves, which was a good thing, my foster father had told me often enough, since I sure had a talent for enraging them.

Double-zap," said Tag. "That is not a technical term, I hope," murmured Asil. "Only the most technically advanced people can use 'double-zap' correctly," Anna told Asil sotto voce. "You and I shouldn't try it.

Laeth returned her smile with one as wicked, as he posed the favorite question of one of the combat instructors, "How many ways are there to kill a person with a knife?" "It doesn't matter, it only takes one to do the job," returned Rialla.

Your skill can never buy you love. It may win you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time.

Sewing on a button, like avoiding eye contact on the subway, is a basic life skill. Along with How to Windex a Mirror and How to Make English Muffin Pizza, sewing on a button was taught in the seventh grade by Miss Almeida in home ec. But home ec isn't on New York school curricula anymore. Home ec has gone the way of health class, where we learned you COULD get it from a doorknob.

Curiosity is a highly undervalued skill because of the value it makes other people feel.

it's possible that procrastinators are not inherently lazy or useless individuals; rather, they're simply faced with tasks which do not match their skill levels or personal motivations.

And just like with any kind of skill, it can be learned.

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

They confused being good at something with stepping in shit and getting lucky.

Yeah, it was my mom who showed me how to select the needle from her tomato, snip the bit of string, and find the eye.

Practice makes the master.

No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

I hate nothing more than doing things badly.

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

Too many people think speed is the hallmark of a good musician.

Excellence is excellence's only companion.

I hate nothing so much as doing a thing badly.

When I arrived, Kilvin was in the process of bending a twisted length of iron rod into what I could only assume was a more desirable shape.

If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows. I

It's not the first time I should be dead, Bast. I'm a fair hand at avoiding it.