Quotes About Proficiency

My only obligation as a professional is to be prepared and be as good as I can be at my position.

I shoot occasionally, but I'm no gun expert.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Orison Swett Marden

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

All he had to do was watch the game and understand how things worked, and then he could use the system, and even excel.

If you can't do it twice, you can't do it at all.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

La gente que sabe de lo que está hablando no necesita PowerPoint

Thomas J. Watson Sr. of IBM followed the same rule: "I'm no genius," he said. "I'm smart in spots—but I stay around those spots.")

In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Skill Pill - Any practice or substance that shortens the time required to master a skill or subject.

The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about.

Before the typewriter, this was a booming career path, as nearly every major business needed a competent and proficient penman on hand... during the golden age of penmanship (roughly 1860 to 1930).

The best carpenters make the fewest chips.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

Don't charge by the hour. Charge by the years.

People know that Jacks of All Trades are Masters of None, and people seek out masters. They trust specialists. Try to appeal to thousands, and you will appeal strongly to no one. Find a niche.

It is very reassuring to your students that you know what you are doing.

If you could do this all the time without the system, you wouldn't need the system.