Quotes About Proficiency

I think on special teams... I want to be sound.

Dustin Rhodes is a guy that can go, he can tear it up with the best of them.

I know how to use a tourniquet, a bandage, I know how to stitch, how to do CPR and a lot of technical bits too.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.

It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

I am so not technically proficient at all.

What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it's as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that's in the military with some kind of technical background.

In a team, you need players who are technically good and can perform under pressure.

It would be very difficult to find a more complete player than Milner. There are players who are better technically. There are quicker players. There are players who head the ball better. But show me a player who does all the things that Milner does well, and there isn't one.

I wasn't the greatest technician when I played.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.

I never had a problem with technique.

You lose speed, that's normal, but the technique you never lose.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.