Quotes About Proficiency

Scoring is easy for me.

The best thing about my game is I'm able to do a lot of things. I can handle. I can pass. You can bring me off screens and pin-downs.

I consider myself a good screenwriter.

I find it difficult to work if I don't know the lines, you know, and not just knowing - they're second nature to me. Then, whatever happens in the performance when you're actually doing it, you're not going to go off. You're going to retain all of that. So I like to have my lines.

I've always thought I played at a high level and played at a fast pace.

Dybala is three pages ahead of the rest in the football manual.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

I can parallel park pretty well - I'm a great driver.

I know the rule. I know law. I know economics. I know parliament. That's an explosive combination.

I've always been partial to good players. If someone is a good player I'm interested.

I was particularly good at math and science.

I'd say my main quality is keeping the ball and my passing.

Assembly level programming] kind of still separates the chest hair—gender-independent—programmers from those who don't quite have it. — Brendan Eich

As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

Memory, that exhausted repertory actor, going through the exhausted, familiar lines of some tired melodrama. It moved through the now meaningless scenes with a terrible practised proficiency for her benefit alone; and she was in the wings, condemned to watch it over and over

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.

Tracking down people who did not want to be found was vital to what I did for a living, and I was good at it.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a skilled intelligence professional, everything looks like a vital source for collection.

I can get by quite well in Italian or German, though if the discussion got to a high level, I'd run out of vocabulary. I'm stronger in French and Swedish.

If you see a credit with just my name on it, that means I write absolutely everything: rhythm guitar parts, guitar melodies, vocal melodies... absolutely everything, really.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

Once the world sees you as that one thing, and the better you are at that thing, the more you can only be that thing.