Quotes About Proficiency

1) He must be competent, (2) he must exercise good judgment, and (3) he must have character.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

The number of people who could deliver a kick to the balls with Aomame's mastery must have been few indeed. She had studied kick patterns with great diligence and never missed her daily practice.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

It's one of the tragedies of the modern university that it offers little space to generalists.

I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.

I was never trained for anything.

Training, that's my specialty.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.

I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel.

each individual can only do one thing well. He can't do lots of things. If he tries, he will be jack of all trades, and master of none.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

Skills that have been well-practiced allow higher levels of arousal without becoming impaired than do newly learned skills.

Proper experience and training engrains a skill so that it's much harder to disrupt under any condition, including one of stress and arousal.

They appeared to know enough to justify their jobs, and nothing more.

I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.