Quotes About Proficiency

Tenure does not equal competence. Doing something for a long time does not mean doing it well.

At the end of the day, I know what my bread and butter is and how I can be effective.

I knew I have those skills and capabilities to perform at the international level.

I think there's so many actors out there that we see and we know as one thing but are capable of so much more.

Everyone is capable of everything.

I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

Your receivers have to catch it, not drop it.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

In normal circumstances, if you want a job done well, you chose someone with experience doing that job.

I know CIA like the back of my hand.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver's license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don't have a license.

First of all, you want to make sure you find a doctor that is a board-certified specialist in whatever that field is - whatever it is - whether it's plastic surgery, facial plastic surgery, ocular plastic surgery, brain surgery, whatever it is. And two, if they do a procedure, you want to make sure they do a lot of it.

Amitabh doesn't surprise me because he has been there, done that.

Guns are heavy metal machines, and, at least in my case, it's surprising how many hours it takes before it looks like you know what you're doing. Releasing and re-loading magazines is difficult when you're asked to do it quickly and efficiently.

When a woman is a really good driver she is just about perfect.

It always works when you know what you're doing

There are better and worse ditch diggers and garbage collectors. People who work in industry know that no matter how apparently mindless a job is, the job can still be done better or worse, with significant economic consequences.

Every skill must be practised. Every act rehearsed. A blade is only a blade when it cuts.

I'm good at digging

who didn't know how to use a shotgun?

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.