Quotes About Skill

Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.

Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

Talent is long patience.

Talent is nothing but long patience.

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

patience is an integral part of talent.

It's a very old idea that patience leads to skills, of course - but it seems urgent now that we go further than this and think about patience itself as the skill to be learned.

Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity

You don't need to be a great singer to sing, but you have to practice singing to be a great singer.

Pickpocket is a sink-or-swim profession, not something that can be taught in the comfort of your living room.

A good pickpocket isn't afraid of intimacy.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

Poets are born, not paid.