Quotes About Proficiency

If they need my C.V., they don't know my work.

If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Handle your tools without mittens.

By the work one knows the workman.

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.

Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

I know Steve Kerr well and his basketball IQ is really high. He knows everything about basketball.

I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.

I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.

I am averse to incompetency. I need mentally stimulating people and intelligent conversations.