Quotes about Skill
It is the desire of all finite players to be Master Players, to be so perfectly skilled in their play that nothing can surprise them, so perfectly trained that every move in the game is foreseen at the beginning.
- James Carse
What is at stake here for owners is not the amount of property as such, but its ability to draw an audience for whom it will be appropriately emblematic; that is, and audience who will see it as just compensation for the effort and skill used in acquiring it.
- James Carse
The professional interpreter is a minor miracle—far better
- Dorothy Sayers
Love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.
- Alain de Botton
Millions around the world see Formula One as the pinnacle of motorsport, and I firmly believe that we should do whatever it takes to keep this accolade. Traction control, automatic gear changes, and launch control isn't my definition of the 'pinnacle of motorsport.'
- Niki Lauda
That man is idle who can do something better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honestly, I think they need to work to improve the categories. If the driver goes from the go-kart to F3 one year and then to F1, why do we have GP3, GP2?
- Felipe Massa
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
- William Hazlitt
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
- George Eliot
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
- Cicero