Quotes about Skill

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

There are a lot of good cars, good teams and good drivers.

If you are enjoying your football, you see it on the pitch.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Good things happen to a team when a player takes the place where he adds the most value. Great things happen when all the players on the team take the role that maximizes their strengths—their talent, skill, and experience.

People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.

Everyone is important, but everyone isn't equal. The person with greater experience, skill, and productivity in a given area is more important to the team in that area.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

I can do small things in a great way.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.