Quotes About Proficiency

Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing.

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

It's better to do something really really well and thorough, than I think to have a surface level version of a lot of different things.

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.

I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

There is, in truth, no difference between esoteric knowledge and all the rest of man's knowledge and proficiency. This esoteric knowledge is no more of a secret for the average human being than writing is a secret for those who have never learned it.

In coding, as in carpentry, you need the right tool for the job.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

I'll join you, sir. You'll need help finding your way about the estate." His lips tightened into a disapproving line. "Begging your pardon, Lady Rosalind, but I didn't have a nursemaid when I was three, so I certainly don't need one now. I'm perfectly capable of navigating an estate alone." "I'm sure you are - indeed, you demonstrated a remarkable proficiency for it last night, and in a strange house, too.

The power of skills and knowledge is that they are transferable from one person to another. Their limitation is that they are often situation-specific — faced with an unanticipated scenario, they lose much of their power. In contrast, the power of talent is that it is transferable from situation to situation.

I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

A man didn't specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

Competence excuses strange behavior.