Quotes About Proficiency

Mechanical proficiency and practical gadgets in America counterbalanced to an extent the beauty of Italy.

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities.

A truly great artist has many talents.

A good artist must be good at many things.

Magnus, it may shock you to learn that I do not have every talent in the world. Just most of the important ones.

I do love competence in a man.

for the same reason I think people enjoy watching sports: seeing someone in full command of what he is expected to do, doing it better than most would, and doing so with joy. My

Having a camera is not enough. You must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!

The hands of a pianist, or a painter, or a sushi chef, or even, as with Thomas Newcomen, hands that could use a hammer to shape soft iron, are truly, in any functional sense,

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence.

We cannot all be masters.

One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.

If you were a software developer who knew a lot about cloud computing, you would instantly be familiar with software companies such as Salesforce.com. If you were working in food marketing, your would clearly be familiar with Nestle, Mondel?z International or Yum! Brands. The point here is that there would never be a need to screen thousands of companies in industries you don't know anything about and haven't even heard of. Animal

Pragmatic Programmers get the job done, and do it well.

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

The key is in the craft.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

If your Ipad can do it better than you, then it is not a skill.

The easiest way to do anything is properly.

There is nothing so eloquent as a thing well done.

There is nothing so convincing as a thing well done.

A thing is never learned until we master it.

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.