Quotes About Proficiency

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

To every man according to his ability.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

He who can does. He who can't, teaches.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster, and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.

a leader should never delegate that which he had not done before and done well.

Roarke) Those who can't, teach. Isn't there some saying along those lines? (Eve) She gave him a blank look. If you can't do something, how the hell can you teach somebody else to do it?

After all, a leader should never delegate that which he had not done before and done well.

I want people to see me as a two-way player. A defensive player and an offensive player.

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.

I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

As an actress, I should be able to do all types of roles.

I'm not a walking encyclopedia. I'm not one of those types that knows every single film ever made or can recite every dialog.

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.