Quotes About Skill

I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.

There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting.

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That's what I hope to find myself in, in the future.

Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.

I still got bars, I just use 'em differently. I'd say I'm a better singer than I am a rapper at this point because I've been sharpening my sword.

I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel, and there's not much finesse in it, not much skill, I don't think anyway.

I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that.

Shoemakers and tanners form a symbiotic relationship out of necessity. One provides the leather while the other whips it into a glorious creation.

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Definitely an important aspect of my playing is keeping my hands in sync.

Success and singing is not synonymous.

Like any skill, systemising occurs on a bell curve in the population, with some people being faster at spotting patterns than others. Autistic people are often strong systemisers. Indeed their attention is often described as 'obsessive' as they check and recheck the patterns of a system.

Chamberlain -- he was bigger than Shaq, just as strong as Shaq, ran just as good as Shaq, rebounded better.... Everybody thinks the new players are bigger, stronger, faster and smarter. But they are not.

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

Just do what you do best.

Decision making is a skill.

Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

The account thus shows once again the omnipotence of mimetic contagion. What motivates Pilate, as he hands Jesus over, is the fear of a riot. He demonstrates "political skill," as they say. This is true, no doubt, but why does political skill almost always consist of giving in to violent contagion?

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil!

What's the noise that you are making?" It's something special," I told him,"and takes a lot of practice. Don't try it offhand. It's a derisive chortle