Quotes About Proficiency

The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

Clarity breeds mastery.

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

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

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

Pickpocket is a sink-or-swim profession, not something that can be taught in the comfort of your living room.

I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

Skill to do comes of doing.

A masterpiece is a piece that masters things.

Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.

Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.

The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

if she be ignorant of the nature of flour, yeast, malt, and hops, what is she good for?

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

People who tried to start at an advanced age, meaning over fourteen, had, in my experience, almost no chance of becoming proficient, and usually suffered pain and sorrow before they quit.

You have to follow your intuition. That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

there can be only one type of person: universal explainers and constructors.

The trick to having a happy life is being good at something.