Quotes About Proficiency

You have to learn the difference between a man's looks, and how fine he shoots. They've never been one and the same.

A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen.

One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

That girl can barely spell her name.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

Here's a guy who can use his arms and legs at the same time.

Depend not on others, but yourself when the job must be done right the first time.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

learn the trade, not the tricks of the trade.

According to the United States Department of Education (DOE), the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)11 reports that only 26 percent of the nation's twelfth graders are proficient in math and only 38 percent are proficient in reading. There is also a twenty-nine percentage point gap between the reading proficiency of white and black twelfth-grade students. And these numbers are unchanged since 2009.12

Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer

The future belongs to the competent

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Those who can do, those who can't teach.

American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

Most programmers, even experienced ones, are poor judges of how code actually performs.

Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool.

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.