Quotes about Skill

Practice even at the things that you have lost all hope of achieving. For the left hand, though inefficient at everything else through lack of practice, is more powerful than the right when it comes to gripping the bridle; for it has had good practice at that.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

But sins must not be overlooked simply because the sinner is skilled.

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.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

At all events, it is certain that if any medicinal man had come to Middlemarch with the reputation of having very definite religious views, of being given to prayer, and of otherwise showing an active piety, there would have been a general presumption against his medical skill.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

A man who works with his hands is a labourer. A man who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. A man who works with his haands, his head, and his heart is an artist.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

It was at this point that the transition was first made to the conception that rhetoric was a teachable skill, that it could, usually in return for a fee, be passed from one skilled performer on to others, who might thereby achieve successes in their practical life that would otherwise have eluded them.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.