Quotes About Proficiency

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better

come back when you know what you're doing.

Do what you master; master what you do.

Two thirds of success is skill.

The earning of money within the modern economic order is, so long as it is done legally, the result and the expression of virtue and proficiency in a calling; and this virtue and proficiency are, as it is now not difficult to see

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.

No competence is required to be a scarecrow!

The more wise and powerful a master, the more directly is his work created, and the simpler it is.

We tend to assume that when people are experts at one thing, their expertise extends to other areas as well.

You are only as good as the technical proficiency of your athletes.

He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about it.

The widely documented failure of late starters to achieve native-like proficiency, even when motivation, cognitive abilities, and opportunities are optimal and plentiful, all agree, is one of the most salient facts about SLA. It is a weighty empirical problem, in Laudan's sense, crying out for a solution.

Figure 1-1 THE PHYSICIAN-AS-EXPERT MODEL.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Tier-1 guys operated on a razor edge of painstakingly honed skills. And every one of those skills was perishable. Either they were operating, or they were training – or they were progressively becoming useless.

Maybe I dance to a different drum, but I get the job done well. I need to be accommodated, not managed.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

The hard reality is that immersion works only when people are actually fluent in something.

Competence can be a curse

If you can't handle providing all the courses for your dinner party, you can't handle the hosting duties of a dinner party.

Choose a man on account of his skills.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.