Quotes About Proficiency

When you look at the best players in the world, they can play all the formats. I don't think it's an easy thing to do and that's why they're the best players in the world.

I'm not so adept at social media. It's not my forte.

Frank Shamrock knows what he's doing.

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

Fundamentals - everybody has that. I definitely have that.

Specialists are not to be trusted," Leto said. "Specialists are masters of exclusion, experts in the narrow.

Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

Poldi can do much more than just play on the wing.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

Some tests suit certain players, others don't.

The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.

I love it when fighters are textbook.

The Doors were never that good as musicians.

I've said for many, many years, as long as I can ever remember, when I'm asked, 'Hey, what do you look for first in a quarterback?' The first thing I look for is accuracy, because the rest of it doesn't matter.

Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.

The language is the hardest thing. My technical Russian is much better than my conversational Russian, and it has to be good enough to explain problems to them in their technical control center.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

It was the sea, and their evident mastery of shipbuilding and navigation

One thing. I've got experience with explosives. Another thing. I've got explosives.

A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.