Quotes About Proficiency

A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

It's better to do one thing well than ten things poorly.

Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

Experience trumps brilliance.

Experience is the highest authority.

There is no substitute for experience

Some people have nothing but experience.

In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.

Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.

Confidence is nothing when you aren't the best.

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

Ability is a poor man's wealth

Whether in basketball or business, you must be able to perform all aspects of your job, not just part of it. You must be able to "get open" and "shoot." One without the other makes you a partial performer, someone who can be replaced because your skills are incomplete.

My father always used to say to me, it doesn't matter what the profession is, but if they're the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

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