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Quotes About Proficiency

He possessed a strange facility for the mandatory.
~ Colson Whitehead
If you could learn from me how to do a brain surgery in as short a time as I am learning this roadwork, I would have great respect for you.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
There is no danger in scientists specializing. The actual danger is that the specialists are generalizing.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
There is only one school: that of talent.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Successful people who cannot express themselves well? I can't think of one.
~ Larry King
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
~ Larry Wall
Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
~ Laura Linney
There's little point, though, in being too scattered to master something, or in spending much time on activities in which you can't excel.
~ Laura Vanderkam
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Seorang yang kompeten dalam level tertentu belum tentu kompeten pada level berikutnya
~ Laurence J. Peter
one reason so many employees are incompetent is that the skills required to get a job often have nothing to do with what is required to do the job itself.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Being allowed to do something and knowing how to do it are not the same thing.
~ Celeste Ng
Ter permissão para fazer algo e saber fazer algo são coisas diferentes.
~ Celeste Ng
Being allowed to do something and knowing how to do it are not the same thing." Moody
~ Celeste Ng
Your skills should transcend technology platform
~ Chad Fowler
I never heard that it had been anybody's business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much.
~ Charles Dickens
Polanyi argued that we only truly know something—that is, have personal knowledge of it—when we can apply it to get results.
~ Charles G. Koch
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1886
No need to teach an eagle to fly.
~ Greek proverb
Secondly, you should be able to control the ball with one touch. If you needed another one, you were not one of the best players, just a good one. If you needed an extra touch, you were playing badly.
~ Guillem Balagué
Old Herriot may be limited in some respects, but by God, he can wrap a cat.
~ James Herriot
BECAUSE I'M REALLY GOOD," Rhonda added.
~ James Patterson
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
~ John Ruskin