Quotes About Proficiency

Win with ability, not with numbers.

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.

Be the best at what you're good at

Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.

It takes some adjusting from a bow to a gun, but by the end of the day, I've got the best score in my class.

Achievements are not earned through proficiency alone. They are in fact rewards of our efficiency. Proficiency is gathered knowledge, while efficiency is the ability to translate the knowledge into action.

It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.

I can cook a good soup from scratch, this is true, and I do know how to drive a stick shift.

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

general or specialized knowledge. An educated man

20. Lack of concentration of effort. The "jack-of-all-trades" seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

If you really are smarter than others, show them with your actions.

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is among the most plentiful, and the cheapest forms of service which may be had! If you doubt this, consult the payroll of any university.

DOING A THING WELL NEVER IS TROUBLE!

We would not even need a statistician; a second-rate engineer would do.

with skills that do not transfer outside of the very machine that they trained on.

it is hard to disentangle ethics on one hand, from knowledge and competence on the other ...

Their strength is extremely domain-specific

those who can drive manual shifts can always drive automatic, but the reverse is not true.

The demand today is for people with knowledge.

As equipment and machinery have become more sophisticated, the knowledge and skill required to operate them has risen accordingly.

One can never truly master the art of driving, because no journey is ever exactly the same," Scythe Curie told her. "But once you've gained proficiency, it can be rewarding—freeing, even.

Mom could have been a great sniper if she had chosen that line of work.