Quotes About Proficiency

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

A slide rule always impresses, giving to the bystanders a feeling that the user thereof knows what he's about and will shortly come up with the answer.)

Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage.

Maintenance is as much art as it is science.

A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one's own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

I've been learning how to shoot a gun and properly handcuff people so that on the day I need to pull someone down to the ground, it looks and feels natural for me.

I have one of the purest shots in the whole entire world, in the league.

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

Though I probably shouldn't admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I've achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning.

I always could putt. Part of my makeup, I always could putt.

You don't ask if an aircraft is being flown by a man or a woman - if it flies, it means it's doing the job it is meant to. The same is with cinema, and all that matters is whether the film works or not.

Digital fluency is about basic skills.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

I've learned a lot on the fly, and I think, actually, my academic and management consulting background has enabled me to quickly pick up on a lot of disciplines.

I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that.

I really do know football.

Maybe I was an even better cricketer than a footballer.

Good players can do well everywhere and Soldado is a good footballer.

A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if they are translating into English.

If you know how to score runs, you can perform in any format.