Quotes About Proficiency

I'm not usually good, but when i am, i'm goddamn good.

Someone said, "Hey, Wanda," and I deduced that this was Wanda. This is why I am such a good reporter.

As long as personal, violent catharsis masquerades as acts of resistance, the corporate state is secure. Indeed, the corporate state welcomes this violence because violence is a language it can speak with a proficiency and ruthlessness that none of these groups can match.

A great performance never misses its mark.

This is mixed martial arts, so you have to be good at everything.

I'm so glad this worked out for me, I do think I know how to be a good model.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

The chevalier's multiple talents were well summed up by John Adams, visiting Paris in 1779: The "mulatto man," wrote the future American president, "is the most accomplished man in Europe in riding, shooting, fencing, dancing, music. He will hit a button on the coat or waistcoat of the masters. He will hit a crown piece in the air with a pistoll [sic] ball.

To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was a testament to their proficiency and talent as artists. They had affected themselves with the authenticity of the moment.

In the car, driving home from the airport, the Fangs did not speak a single word. It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was a testament to their proficiency and talent as artists. They had affected themselves with the authenticity of the moment.

Most of the best programmers I know are also very fluent in their mother's tongue, and typically in other languages as well.

There's something about doing a job well that is akin to art.

You have some special expertise in sensor configurations of which I am not aware?

The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.

Pissing is the least of my talents. You ought to see me shit

Why give a horse to a man who cannot ride?

A sword is only as good as the man who wields it.

I like simple things well-done and have no time to philosophize.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.