Quotes About Proficiency

A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.

Messi has the best technique in the world.

The biggest challenge to me is always technique.

Technique wasn't my favorite thing to learn, and I doubt I would be great teaching it.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

I have enough experience, and I can do my Telugu dubbing perfectly without any help.

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

If the church preaches faith in anything other than the resurrection - if it gives so much as the impression that anything else, be it political action, moral achievement, or spiritual proficiency, can save the world - it becomes just one more false, parochial prophet leading the world away from the catholic parousia of Christ in the universal death of history.

You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Stephanie knew mat in many things

the more specialized you become, the more you are trapped and dependent on that specialty.

Do anything long enough and you'll get some depth of insight and understanding about it.

Clarity breeds mastery.

leadership is about knowing very little about most things and a staggering amount about a few things

By the time you've learned it all, by the time you're really proficient, you're almost too old to go on catching.

John, I might have known it. You do things better and more easily than anyone else.

Having often hired people based on general ability, not specific skills—Gates himself being a prime example—Rockefeller acceded to the choice.

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

because we can handle this stuff better than men, can't we?

You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it.

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

I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.