Quotes About Proficiency

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Bicycles should not be insured or registered, and cycling proficiency should not be subject to a test. That's just weak-kneed nonsense from people who believe the world can be cured with paperwork.

I've been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged seven - I got to school at 7:30 A.M. to practise, I was so nervous. After that, I always cycled to school.

What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them.

Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?

experience and the advantage of being the one

This rule is that people always think that if they are very expert at something, that thing must therefore be extremely important.

People always think that if they are expert at something, that thing must therefore be extremely important.

I've written all these stories without any pornography, without any obscenity. I grew up among sailors and miners and lumberjacks and the roughest kind men in the world, but I never found it necessary to use all that in the stories. I can make them real without that. I think much of that kind of writing is a coverup for lack of real skill.

I never came into contact with any class of men so smart and able as they are in their business.

Knowledge of a subject doesn't necessarily mean you can do anything with it. That would require skill. Likewise, a student can commit something to memory with no knowledge whatsoever. A grade-schooler, for example, might be able to recite the multiplication table perfectly, but still be unable to solve simple math problems. Coming to know something implies the goal of being able to use the knowledge, while being aware of facts or figures does not. Of

The possibility of acquiring the art of writing may be withheld from someone through poverty, or through the conditions of civilization into which he is born; but for the attainment of knowledge and proficiency in the higher worlds, there is no obstacle for those who earnestly seek them.

I can tell you, she really knows her job. So do boa constrictors, said Audrey.

People unable to bear the martyrdom [...] unintelligently jump off the path, and choose instead, conveniently enough, the world's admiration of their proficiency. The true knight of faith is a witness, never a teacher, and in this lies the deep humanity in him which is more worth than this foolish concern for others' weal and woe which is honoured under the name of sympathy, but which is really nothing but vanity.

Experience is invaluable. I can't express enough how much experience in this sport has helped me as a driver.

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Muscle is good, but craft is better

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.