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Quotes About Skill

You can only fight the way you practice
~ Miyamoto Musashi
Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.
~ Jeff Cooper
When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.
~ Walter Payton
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
~ Michelangelo
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
~ Niels Bohr
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
~ Louis Nizer
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.
~ Francis Chichester
To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
~ Joey Lauren Adams
You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.
~ Chuck Noll
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~ Walt Disney
Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.
~ John C. Maxwell
I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.
~ Chris Brown
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
~ Janet Flanner
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
~ Confucius, The Analects
Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.
~ Richard Branson
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
~ Marie Angelique Arnauld
Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.
~ Tad Williams
The more you practice what you know, the more shall you know what to practice.
~ Unknown
Soccer is a magical game.
~ David Beckham
What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
~ Alexander Pope
Writing is a craft not an art.
~ William Zinsser