Quotes About Skill

She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.

Her skill was the force that pulled them. There were just so few cryptologists of her ability, or William's. They were like a binary star system in a void, twin suns rotating around each other, drawing lesser bodies by their light.

How long someone's been doing it is overrated. What matters is how well they've been doing it.

The best are everywhere

My father wants to take your favorite song and play it better than you've ever heard. I want to take your least favorite song and play it so good that you like it.

The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe).

Huzursuz adamlar ne kadar çok yaÅŸlan?rlarsa o kadar çok yaÅŸamaya devam etmek isterler ve eÄŸer becerileri her ÅŸeyi yapmalar?na yetmiyorsa, o zaman art?k yapamad?klar? ÅŸeyleri onlara anlatabilecek insanlar?n dostluÄŸunu ararlar ve onlar?n vekilliÄŸinde yaÅŸamlar?n? uzat?rlar.

Nothing affects the learning culture of an organization more than the skill with which its executive team receives feedback. And

Nothing affects the learning culture of an organization more than the skill with which its executive team receives feedback.

Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.

here's to one undiscoverable guess of whose mad skill each world of blood is made (whose fatal songs are moving in the moon

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship. But true listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person's attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts.

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.

nothing is too good for the object of their adoration as long as he maintains his position by repeated examples of his skill, strength, and courage.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

A]rt can never give the rules that make an art.

A genius must never be seen struggling to master his craft. He starts out already accomplished.

I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.

Cornelius and Iggy were in the final round and their opponents, who were from the city, displeased and spiteful, not a sound in that room until, at the very zenith, cries of disbelief as it turned out that Cornelius had the knave, the ace, and the king, each of which he threw down with a braggart air and Iggy pooled the winning cards onto his lap. They were the joint winners.

The Bootmakers of Toronto, copyright © 2006 by Edward D. Hoch.