Skill Quotes

I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

The best way to carve is not to split.

The most able seems clumsy.

Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say take the kick, Cristiano.

He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

The implements to him who can handle them.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.

Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.

There are chefs who are spectacular technicians, and often their food is worth eating once or twice, but if there's no heart in it, if there's no personality in it, it's not something you want to go back for. But heart without any skill at all? All the heart in the world ain't gonna help you if you can't peel an onion, or if you don't understand how to apply heat properly. A well-done steak is a well-done steak.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

Being crazy isn't enough.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

I outwit them, and then I outhit them

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

What is a fine person or a beauteous face,Unless deportment give them decent grace;Blessed with all other requisites to please,To want the striking elegance of ease;Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skillOf moving gracefully, or standing still.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

I saw a guy juggling chain saws, it was cool, unless something needed to be sawed down, then it's annoying.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.'Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.