Skill Quotes

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

How can you contrive to write so even?

One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

He who can copy can do.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)

Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

I do not fear the man who practices 1,000 kicks one time each. I fear the man who practices 1 kick 1,000 times.

Let a man practise the profession he best knows.[Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

I'm not jumping through the gym by any means. But I don't need to be able to do that in order to be a great player.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.