Quotes About Proficiency

The infantry's mission was "to close with and destroy the enemy." No questions asked. No ambiguity. No gray areas. The infantry officer was to go into battle up front, demonstrating courage, determination, strength, proficiency, and selfless sacrifice.

I'm a vet. I know the game and know how to play the game.

The big element I think that I bring is that I am a veteran coach.

The heart of the matter is that everybody starts video games as a beginner. Then, after going through a lot of experiences and becoming more and more fond of video games, they become the experts.

As Tom followed her through the clothing department, he had to admit Cassandra knew what she was doing. She went briskly past counters and shelves, addressed store clerks by name, and located what she wanted without hesitation. "You shop very efficiently," he said begrudgingly. "Practice," came her airy reply.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Confidence has to be backed up with competence.

Nobody can be bad at everything. There's no such thing as a perfect screwup.

A specialist is a person who knows very much about very little and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost nothing at all.

Not bringing anything new to the table is fine, as long as you're good at what you're not being original with.

You can't be better than everyone at everything. You can always become the best at something specific. Zero in on the target and own it!

As some men were born to handle a paintbrush or a pen, he was born to wield a gun. It looked natural in his hand, a tool of which a man could be proud, like a wrench.

Just because anyone can pilot a ship in the sea doesn't always mean that they also know how to swim in it.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

If you lack experience or a particular talent or skill and you don't want to pay the price to acquire it, then hire someone who has it to do the job for you.

The word know-how does not mean knowing how to do something-that's activity knowledge. Know-how is doing that something the right way, with skill and effectiveness, and with minimum expenditure of time and effort.

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

Confidence is the public face of competence.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.

Everybody's trapped in the thing he does best.