Quotes About Proficiency

I want to be excellent at my craft.

I can only write about what I know, I'd be crap anywhere else.

You need different skills to do well in 50-overs cricket. You need completely different skills to do well in Test cricket. You need different skills to do well in T20 cricket. It is not the same.

With the cricket, I knew what I was doing - to a degree.

I don't tackle a whole lot of electrical, but I could build you an entire house. I worked as a professional framer, as a tile-setter, did a lot of my own plumbing; I taught myself.

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.'

I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.

Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

It takes a lifetime to master one dance form.

Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

A lot of people don't realize the skills and talent that I have.

Talent is talent.

That's the biggest difference from college to NFL. Everybody's so talented at this level, the difference is knowing the game - knowing where to go with the ball in my position, knowing how to execute your job to the highest level. In college, you could just get by playing ball.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

The experts typically know where the other best-in-the-world talents are currently working and can help you recruit them in with a credible intro.

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

You've got to play to your players' talents.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

I'm not a good talker, I'm a great talker because I do it so often over a long period of time.

If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.

Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, 'What can you do?' stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people.

To his surprise he also 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, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.