Quotes About Proficiency

If we had to pick our group's specialty, it would be performance.

I've always thought really good artists in general are overqualified. You're paid to stand there and do a line, but the guy has probably gone to drama school... but they have developed it to be just, like, one specific line.

I think I'm okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does.

If he is having a bad game, a team-mate might feel Paul Scholes is not quite on his game, but a spectator wouldn't notice. Scholes, of all the players I have played with, has the highest bottom level.

I am better at math than spelling.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

We're all nerds now. We might as well get good at it.

The writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

I don't know much about auto mechanics, and Jack the Ripper didn't know much about anatomy.

Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering.