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Quotes About Skill

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
~ George Orwell
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
~ William Graham Sumner
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
~ John Cheever
I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.
~ Rodger Ward
It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.
~ Samuel Johnson
Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
~ William Golding
Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
~ Kate Beckinsale
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.
~ Miranda Otto
I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.
~ Sam Snead
I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.
~ Ray Manzarek
I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.
~ Tony Blair
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
~ Paul Cezanne
Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
~ Kristin Hersh
I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.
~ Andre Braugher
Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.
~ Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Paul Newman is not a very good pool player.
~ Rudolf Wanderone
I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
~ Ted Lindsay
I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
~ Ritchie Blackmore
Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better.
~ Henrik Larsson
I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.
~ Lee Westwood
Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.
~ Robert Mondavi
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
~ Al Alvarez