Quotes About Proficiency

I sometimes worry that maybe it's better to be really good at one thing than be okay at a couple things.

There is nothing worse than being mediocre at a whole bunch of different things.

A thing well done is worth doing.

When Tom Hanks is in a film, you know it's going to be good.

Tony Bradley is pretty good.

I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.

I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

I come from film, where I only play a character for three months at a time, and then it's done, so it's important for me to be able to put on other hats and make sure that all of the tools in my toolbox that don't apply to Olivia Pope are still in shape.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

I can 100 percent compete at the top level in every game that I play.

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

I'm probably not as good in the topics that I'm less passionate about than the ones I spend all my time on.

Guns were the symbols of judgment and power, so that those who were expected to exercise power and judgment had to wear them and be proficient in their use.

The trouble with being all-rounder and good at most things is that it is difficult to know what to specialize in.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

What sets a professional nose apart from an everyday nose is not so much its sensitivity to the many aromas in a food or drink, but the ability to tease them apart and identify them.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

which I hoped to make. None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and

Cualquier inteligencia normalmente dotada que se dedique con interes a determinada area, llega sin duda a dominarla con cierta profundidad.

people who are good at it are the ones who have gained experience and who are keen observers.