Quotes about Skill
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
- Cicero
Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.
- Martin Luther
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
- Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.
- Aristotle
Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
- John F. Kennedy
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
- Pablo Picasso
Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.
- Maya Angelou
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.
- Paulo Coelho
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
- William Hazlitt
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
- Martha Graham
Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes
- George Bernard Shaw
Learn to be good for something.
- Brigham Young