Quotes About Skill

The new century is coming. Young women should have a chance to make something of themselves. Heaven knows that most of the cooks in the great houses around the country are women. It's a natural art for us females.

What's more, I'd learn to use a typewriting machine and develop a real skill, more useful than where to seat a bishop at a dinner table.

The ability to conceptualize war plans and implement them on a grand scale is one of the most difficult skills for any officer to acquire. Most never acquire this ability, something that may explain why warfare has, over the long centuries of its practice, produced only a few truly great generals. Subotai became one of those generals.

Nn omns qu habent citharam sunt citharoed.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Every task has a mental component to it. A lot of what we call talent is when people stumble upon these strategies easily.

Everyone reading this book will have heard the expression sleep on it as advice for tackling a problem. There's truth to this saying because your unconscious has the ability to help you see things from a different perspective. Your unconscious is also where most of your mental habits function. Whenever we learn to do something with our minds, it becomes automated, and we become unconsciously skilled at it.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

You are what you practice most.

Tis not the work of force but skill To find the way into man's will. Tis love alone can hearts unlock. Who knows the WORD, he needs not knock.

It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.

Some say we came God's purpose to fulfil - Faith a poor purpose then, if so you will; Sport for the heavenly huntsmen, others say, - Sorry the sport, methinks, and poor the skill.

But practice pares back the impossible

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

he'd have to improve significantly to achieve mediocrity.

That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about—acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

To the absolutist in every craftsman, each imperfection is a failure; to the practitioner, obsession with perfection seems a perception for failure.

But still he keeps working with a will; that's the craftsman in him.

The carpenter, lab technician, and conductor are all craftsmen because they are dedicated to good work for its own sake.