Quotes About Proficiency

Years of experience: People who had ten years of experience did not outperform those with two years of experience. There was no correlation between experience and performance except that those with less than six months' experience with the language used in the exercise did not do as well as the rest of the sample.

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.

At that time I attached a perhaps undue importance to staying alive, and I became moderately proficient with both the pistol and the small-sword.

You need to be technically and tactically proficient with all your weapon systems and set the standard for the newbie on the team. They should aspire to be like you one day. If you live the example, you set the stage for success. You also take away all the excuses, should anyone want to fall back on one.

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

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Good swiping is an art in itself.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

I was good at art - always good at art.

Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.

Talent is an art of gaining admiration!

A great hammer doesn't make a great carpenter; but a great carpenter will always want to have a great hammer.

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