Quotes About Proficiency

Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch

The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue.

The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue. You

The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue. You weren't supposed to go down for a good cause; the goal was to figure out a way not to go down at all.

The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue. You weren

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

It isn't the man who wants to who continues the tradition, it's the man who can, and sometimes he's the man who knows least about it.

No one teaches well unless he has first learned well; no one learns well unless he learns in order to teach. And both learning and teaching are vain and unprofitable unless accompanied by practice.

You have only seen the least of what I can do.

Playing the villain was the only thing he'd ever really excelled at.

Except that I have no marketable skills other than swinging around a sword and making up riddles, neither of which probably pay all that well.

So it's not as bad as it looks?" Call ventured. "Oh, no," she told him. "It's just as bad as it looks. But I'm very, very good at my job.

Apparently you can do lots of things very skilfully while asleep, Mr. Sharpe, but attending my class does not seem to be one of them.

You've only seen the least of what I can do.

When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be done by single minds not of encyclopedic range, is to master one subject or branch of subject as thoroughly as possible, and to rest content with knowing that others are working in regions where neither time nor strength will permit us to enter.

Become so great, you get bored.

Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.

My problem is that I can do variety of roles.

I think if you can be as versatile as you can be, you'll be the best player you can be.

Be able to shoot, be able to pass and do all those extra things that I can't make up with freakish athleticism, the freakish body type that I don't have, I have to make up for it with being versatile.

I'd like to be recognized as a versatile actor.

I have always aimed for versatility.

Versatility is an extra string to a player's bow.