Quotes About Skill

Anyone who is good at something makes it look easy. That does not mean it is.

We need to give some time to the arts of cherishing the things we adore, before they simply vanish. Maybe it will be like learning a skill: how to live in paradise.

You have to follow your intuition. That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

But there are two basic kinds of professional, Harkness saw in a moment of self-congratulatory illumination. There's the professionalism that does something well enough to earn a living from it. And there's the professionalism that creates a commitment so intense that the earning of a living happens by the way. Its dynamic isn't wages but the determination to do something as well as it can be done.

We're all designers now. It's time to get good at it.

you can never know how far any individual can go since reading aptitudes are as unique as basketball or bowling aptitudes.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

The trick to having a happy life is being good at something.

The question of why one player won a game rather than another is different from the question of how hard the game is to play.

By starting with caring (working from the inside out), we open ourselves to possibilities and become willing to go where the client will take us. The skill or action behaviors can then fall on fertile ground. By

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

This country has no indigenous art that requires this level of skill. When classical music is transposed to our society we understand its purpose to be playing in a band or orchestra and we equate its complexity and sophistication to jazz. This is at best naive, at worst a perversion. A

I said he's the best at what he does. Not at what I do.

A skilled rider should be able to operate the throttle and front brake simultaneously.

less experienced riders look closer to the bike with a more fixed gaze, while skillful riders look farther ahead and frequently change their focus.

The System of Motorcycle Control (the British System) is the basis for what is called roadcraft, the science of becoming an accomplished motorcyclist. The implication is that motorcycling is a craft worthy of mastering, not simply a fun thing you attempt by bump and feel.

having some warm and fuzzy impulse to make the world a better place isn't enough. It doesn't make you an artist. What's been lost is any appreciation of virtuosity, of flair.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player.

(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.