Quotes About Proficiency

There's no doubt about it: I think that my versatility helps me.

Actors on stage, you can go from playing a myriad of roles, from Shakespeare to a Eugene O'Neil drama, and it's the norm. I came up in a world where you're supposed to be able to do three things very well. Act, sing, dance, paint, do something. The emphasis was on versatility.

A marriage of commitment and knowledge produces dignified work.

Assembly programmers are the only programmers who can truly claim to be the masters, and that's a truth worth meditating on.

And of course you don't actually have to take an IQ test to become a reporter.

shorthand at seventy words a minute.

We all have to be knowledgeable about something, and Cheddar is my specialty.

Your hands already know too much.

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

It's always great to work with masters, people who are really, truly good at what they do.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.

My work speaks for itself.

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.

Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.

Specific knowledge is needed in every work, if we want to have success

Be as successful as a Smith.

We are capable of anything and everything