Quotes About Proficiency

I think I do a lot of things averagely. So I have to combine them. It looks impressive but actually I don't think I excel at any of them.

I may have a talent for acting, but I am incapable of doing anything else.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

Proficiency is not benevolence. There is an art to being present.

You have to know your subject," he said. "You have to know what cannot be forgotten.

skillful trade.

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

There are certain actors you watch in a movie, and you think, 'Wow, that guy is very skilled.'

In college, I was teetering on the edge: Do I want to be an actor? Do I not want to be an actor? And then I saw Michael Caine in 'Alfie,' and I thought, 'Wow, that's what I want to do with my life,' even if I knew I'd never reach that level of proficiency.

I'm an all-around fighter. I do everything. I've got wrestling; I've got Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and I've got striking.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

It's hard to do even simple things well, and most things aren't simple. As

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. Benjamin Disraeli

If you are a guru or an expert, people will know it. If you aren't one, no one is going to believe you. In

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

There are guys you've never heard of who drive the ball better than anybody I've seen on the PGA Tour.

Touring is something I do really well.