Quotes About Proficiency

Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce.

My workmanship and quality are my strengths.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things.

If you're going to make comments on economy, study economy. If you're gonna make comments on world history, make sure you learn world history. If you're gonna save lives and be a doctor, you need to study medicine. Then, you will be able to make comments on economy, on medicine, and on world history.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

I believe I'm better than everybody when it comes to footwork, timing, reflexes, defense, you name it.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

I'm good at what I do but, to be honest, not a whole hell of a lot else!

It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look it fast.

They were not hired for their looks or their sophistication; the most competent ones specialized in puzzles, music, and foreign languages.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Loving the game meant mastering the mechanics of the game.

In this age, being seen as an "expert" may have little bearing on the "expert's" ability to do the thing she is supposedly an expert in.

Lying, like marksmanship and tomato growing, got easier with practice. He

Break the rules only if you have mastered them.

By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

Last time I checked I was able to throw the ball a little bit.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

My father was a blacksmith, my uncle was a horse doctor, and I was both, along at first. Then I went over to the great arms factory and learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything; guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery.

Competence was attractive.

Ser bueno en algo era interesante.