Quotes About Proficiency

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

The ability for a person to operate satisfactorily in a thing is dependent on how much he knows about that thing. Ignorance is a major cause of inability.

Owning a drone does not a pilot make.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

Lead competently.Lead productively.Lead skillfully.Lead excellently.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Whatever you do, do it well.

Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.

This is what happens, perhaps, if you have been studying something so long that you can tell one sea anemone from another in an instant, could have picked out any denizen of those tidal pools from a lineup if it had committed a crime.

Some people are smart. Some people are good." He opened his eyes and put a hand on each of my shoulders. "And some people are both.