Quotes About Proficiency

Many leaders of high-proficiency groups focus on creating priorities, naming keystone behaviors, and flooding the environment with heuristics that link the two.

High-proficiency environments help a group deliver a well-defined, reliable performance, while high-creativity environments help a group create something new.

Because of their difficulty analyzing the particulars, they became adept at recognizing the patterns.

I may be a simple man, but I am very good with an axe.

I think the astute viewer can recognise I am the proper bloke, because I have a toolbox and can put things back together, and I can quote W. B. Yeats and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.

Those who can't do, teach.

We all have, she knew, a place where we're not only most comfortable, but most competent

Ciascuno si specializzerà nel proprio lavoro, producendo per sé e per gli altri, giacché, per raggiungere la massima efficienza, è necessario che ciascuno faccia il proprio mestiere e non il mestiere degli altri.

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

this book is designed for you. Gaining proficiency will require a careful examination of the chapters that follow, plus a commitment to spend some serious time and energy learning and applying Joe's teachings in your daily routines.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.

You can't do everything, so focus on your strengths.

toffs could get up to speed. But Ben at least knew roughly

That LIKE A BOSS moment when you turn to the exact page in a book your teacher tells you too.

...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.