Quotes about Skill

What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?

Practice is the key to mastering any skill.

In a world in transition, students and teachers both need to teach themselves one essential skill - learning how to learn.

The assumption is that loving their husbands is an unnatural skill that wives must learn — better yet, we could describe it as a supernatural skill.

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

The young talent we have in dancing in our country is to be seen to be believed.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. 'We're like coyotes,' he said. 'Get to a good place, turn around three times in the grass, and you're home. Once you know how, you can always do that, no matter what. You won't forget.

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin, see it in your mind's eye and smell it with your mind's nose! But forming these images from the printed page is a skill you have to develop when you're fairly young, I think, or else it's very difficult to read for pleasure later on.

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three.