Quotes About Skill

But how quickly you can finger notes is the smallest part of music. The real key is timing.

Luckily, languages are like musical instruments: the more you know, the easier it is to pick up new ones.

This is why there are so few true musicians. A lot of folks can sing or saw out a tune on a fiddle. A music box can play a song flawlessly, again and again. But knowing the notes isn't enough. You have to know how to play them. Speed comes with time and practice, but timing you are born with. You have it or you don't.

Whatever the art or whatever the craft - and make a note of this before you go - talent means next to nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

You see?' said Baldini, equally both satisfied and disappointed; and he straightened up. 'You can't do it. Of course you can't. You're one of those people who know whether there is chervil or parsley in the soup at meal-time. That's fine, there's something to be said for that. But that doesn't make you a cook.

Meanwhile, the front door opened. It was something it was very good at. After all, it had been doing it for years. Did it with skill and grace, obviously taking great pride in its work, not even making a squeak. Probably

Before anesthesia, surgeons removed bladder stones, drained ovarian cysts, and amputated legs, but little else; they were rewarded for their speed more than their skill. A surgeon named Robert Liston, in an attempt to best his own speed record for amputating a leg, accidentally cut off one of his patient's testicles and two of his assistant's fingers.

A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts. They like putting their hands on the equipment and getting it to do things for them. It's not about art or ideas. It's about working at something and making it come out right.

Mastery. The right game establishes an optimal level of difficulty.

True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove that they have the know-how.

There are three things needed to be a great photographer. In this order. You and your keen eye, a great lens and a camera to make the shot.

The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.

Granny was sizzling butter in an iron skillet on the gas range, and I was working the chicken-fried steak assembly line. I had just dropped a slab of meat into a bowl of flour, turning it over to coat both sides. Then I dipped the meat into a bowl of milk and eggs, letting the steak swim a bit. Finally, I put it back into the flour. That's how you bread steak

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

To accomplish this, we practice and develop skill in interpersonal communications.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

It is important to use your hands, that is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator.

Don't try to be original, just try to be good.

Riven peeked into the wagon. "You show me what you can do with those balls when I see you again, yes?" "Yes," Elden peeped.

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.