Quotes About Proficiency

When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Be good, or be good at it.

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

Your Presentation is you Capability

If you don't know when you're good, how can you know when you're bad?

Practice transforms a skill into an art

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

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

Resumés are ridiculous

The best are everywhere

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.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Let such teach others who themselves excel

One science only will one genius fit

I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous.

I don't like being compared to other kickers. Kicking, I've always felt, was my weak suit. The only area of kicking I was really proud of was that I was good under pressure. If all I had to do was worry about kicking, I'd have been much more proficient.

You have to do your talking on the pitch. I don't talk much in England - mainly because of the language.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I always liked how David Beckham played - his set-plays and his dead balls.

All good players are interesting.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

If you're good at your job, you're good at your job regardless of being male, female, whatever. Either you're a good director or you're not, and there are plenty of bad male directors.