Quotes about Skill
When I left school I went onto the shop floor, working 12-hour shifts in a TV factory. My workmates were sharp, skilled and all capable of enjoying higher education - but they didn't have that opportunity.
- John McDonnell
Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.
- Julie Andrews
Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult.
- Fred Craddock
The first is that learning to preach is difficult, and the difficulty is not greatly relieved by having a skilled instructor or by the discovery that one seems to be naturally a "good talker.
- Fred Craddock
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
- Frederick Douglass
We are born makers. We move what we're learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands.
- Brene Brown
An artist is first an amateur.
- Henry David Thoreau
Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee!
- Herman Melville
Aptitud suple antigüedad.
- Elbert Hubbard
Crying does not equal good acting.
- Maxine Peake
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice. 7.
- Marcus Aurelius