Quotes About Proficiency

was thrilled by the manner in which the American worked his ship. With his

They think if something is simple enough to be put in a checklist, a monkey can do it. Well, if that's true, grab a pilot's checklist and try your luck with a 747.

An expert is simply someone who has more experience than you.

We would never ask a hearing student to comprehend a lecture in Mandarin if he or she did not have proficiency in the language. Nevertheless, we ask this feat of deaf children everyday.

I know how to do this, I thought. I am good, at least, at this. I know all the steps to this dance

The important takeaway is to know that you don't have to wait until you win something to access the winner effect: You can do it in any moment by engaging and getting proficient at mental rehearsal or visualization.

Practice the basics. Run through your presentation again and again. Make sure you know it cold, so you can perform it on autopilot; that way you can turn some of your focus to reading the room instead of having to think about every word you are saying.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

That is very much like asking: "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school?

To succeed, managers have to become proficient at their superficiality.

You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like it`s all you know how to do.

a French dexterity combined with Italian acting.

In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that if you put in 10,000 hours that you will become an expert, but there aren't any cases where someone has achieved world-class mastery without it! So the time spent at the activity is indeed the most important and influential factor.

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.

My advantage is my skill so I have to use it.

I'm not a good katana user, bo staff user.

It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.

There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work

The right man can make a good job out of any job.

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.