Quotes About Proficiency

In Italy they judge you above all on your efficiency.

Jeremy can't do anything. I've never discovered anything he can do. I mean, he can drive a car round a track pretty well, but he wouldn't be able to light a fire.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

Joe Hart has bags and bags of talent.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

An expert is one who does not have to think. He knows.

With a deftness born of long practice, she

Unless you completely devote yourself to one practice, you'll never really master it.

Prof's ability makes mine look like a piece of rice. And not even a cooked one.

Allomancy wasn't just about fighting and killing. It was about skill and grace. It was something beautiful.

you're a good shot, it doesn't matter how much stopping power a gun has." "If you're a good shot," I said solemnly, raising a hand to my breast, "you're probably already using a rifle.

A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession.

She does everything beautifully. She's complete.

It takes less time to do a thing right than explain why you did it wrong....

The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.

Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no coloured belts like judo, so the male yoga expert needs some other kind of visible symbol.

There is a downside to affordable technology, and that's mediocrity. I mean, just 'cause you can afford it don't mean you can do it.

People said when I was a young lad 'Oh he's got good feet.' He's good in small spaces and that's something I have always had since a young age.

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.

Do one thing but do it well

Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know

I was tasked to provide some much-needed adult supervision and demonstrate necessary tactical proficiency when dealing with enemy threats through the appropriate use of precision fires in accordance with the warrior ethic. What are you doing here, soldier?

Whatever you lay your hands on, self-esteem is visible.