Quotes About Proficiency

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Figure out what you do, then do it. And do it better than anyone else. And then let everything else you do build around that; stay with what you know. Being great at one thing doesn't mean you can also run a restaurant or a car dealership or a line of sportswear. Bill Gates is not going to launch a line of sportswear. Most likely, neither should you.

Y el 99,9 por ciento de las veces no era porque no supieran disparar un arma,

Career specialists can't externalize what they've internalized. Second nature is hard to teach.

Success is: Do your kids remember you for being the best dad? Not the dad who gave them everything, but will they be able to tell you anything one day? Will they able to call you out of the blue, any day, no matter what? Are you the first person they want to ask for advice? And at the same time, can you hit it out of the park in whatever it is you decide to do, as a lawyer, as a doctor, as a stockbroker, as a whatever?

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. —NIELS BOHR,

It sounds like generic advice, but you'd be hard-pressed to find any successful person who didn't have about three skills in the top 25%.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." –Niels Bohr Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

When you are discovered by a householder—with revolver—in his parlor at half-past three in the morning, it is surely an injudicious move to lay stress on your proficiency as a burglar. The householder may be supposed to take that for granted.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

If any man love the instruments of any craft, the gods have called him.

15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering

well-directed though is a learned skill

It doesn't matter what you do, only how well you do it.

First of all, said Serafim, there are no advanced skills; there is only skillful movement.

What you love to do, you will learn to do well.

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Professionally, I have no age.

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.