Quotes About Proficiency

Once you have mastered the craft, you can use it for whatever purpose you choose.

I am a damn good high priestess of the intellect,

It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

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Not how much, but how well, is our motto.

A person who spends eight years learning how to make a cake will probably make you a good cake, but a person who spends eight years as an aviator and a tailor and a math tutor and a trainer of bears in the circus will probably kill you in a plane he is flying very badly while wearing a shirt that doesn't fit and fighting off an ill-behaved bear, all the while insisting that seven times six is harmonica.

Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?

You're not very good at this, are you?' 'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.

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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Una persona che sa scrivere una lunga lettera con facilità non può scrivere male.

El que está dotado de la capacidad de hacer algo con rapidez, siempre la valora mucho, y en muchos casos sin prestar atención alguna a la imperfección de la ejecución.

Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.

Yeah. My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

I never don't know my lines. I never take the audition pages into the room. I end up relying on them or looking at them too much, and it makes me feel unprepared, so I always learn my lines without fail.

By the time I got to 'St Vincent,' I had shot so many scenarios I was ready for anything - I've shot kangaroos, I've shot dogs, cats, crowds, fight scenes, stunts, comedy, drama, handheld, dolly, helicopter, crane - I just felt that there was nothing I was unprepared for.

We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.

I like to rate myself as a performer upfront, both in films as well as in television.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.