Quotes About Proficiency

Her kung fu is that powerful.

His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.

There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: "I can do it better than you," but simply: "I can do it.

the only sin on earth was to do things badly.

One could specialize in a certain skill and then trade the products of that skill for other goods.

A sniper is like a genius - it's not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.

It's not what we call ourselves that matters, it's the attitude we bring and the skills we can contribute.

Be undeniably good.

Just because you're great at something doesn't mean you're good at everything.

I love thoroughness. I respect people that do a job well.

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

Competence beats obedience.

People, including yourself, will start to assume that you are competent and able (or at least they will not immediately conclude the reverse).

If they're not, then it will serve as a major red flag that the person who's asking them is not an expert in their field. For example, imagine being on the receiving end of the following series of intelligence-gathering questions, asked in exactly this order:

With simple tasks such as typing, driving, or playing golf and tennis, we reach our highest level of proficiency after about 50 hours of practice; then our performance skills become automated. We're able to execute them smoothly and with minimal effort, but further development stops. We assume we've reached our highest performance level, and we don't think to learn new and better methods.

it takes almost a lifetime to learn how to do a thing simply.

Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

THE ELEVATOR TEST Know your solution (or your product or business) so thoroughly that you can explain it clearly and precisely to your client (or customer or investor) in 30 seconds. If you can do that, then you understand what you're doing well enough to sell your solution.

After all, this is what learning is: as we learn a task, we get better at it, be it tennis, geometry, or a foreign language.

Whenever a tool is handled with ease and with a minimum of false motions, so that it will produce accurate and satisfactory results, it is handled in the right way. The constant aim of every carpenter, especially the apprentice, should be to eliminate false motions in everything he does." — Carpenter's Tools, H. H. Seigele

On 'This Morning' we've got a really good team of people - everyone knows their jobs inside out so you can really just rely on something to be done.

It's one thing to talk about lack of diversity and lack of representation. But that doesn't matter if you're not good at what you're supposed to be doing.

Anybody that says I don't have any experience in immigration cases doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.

You've got to demonstrate you're capable of developing policies but, more importantly, you're capable of implementing them.