Quotes About Proficiency

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.

Usually, my track record's pretty good with guys on base.

I think I've got a track record and an experience brief that I'll put up against anybody's.

I offer a proven track record in the big leagues that can hit left-handers or right-handers.

I went to a small school, so I had to be a jack of all trades and master a few.

I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

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

Winners do not do right things, they do things right !

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

it is only a very rare artist that is as good as his art.

Are you really as good as they say?" "No," she said calmly. "We're better.

I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.

You speak the language far better than

I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

Chapter 10 Precision and Professionalism

Il y a deux sortes de savants : les spécialistes, qui connaissent tout sur rien, et les philosophes, qui ne connaissent rien sur tout.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

How pleasant a world would be in which no man was allowed to operate on the Stock Exchange unless he could pass and examination in economics and Greek poetry, and in which politicians were obliged to have a competent knowledge of history and modern novels.

La mayor felicidad se deriva del completo dominio de las propias facultades

Casual experience of life is of very little use to a specialist, such as I aspire to be; good manners are absolutely useless.