Quotes about Skill

Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.

As arts, grammar and logic are concerned with language in relation to thought and thought in relation to language. That is why skill in both reading and writing is gained through these arts.

Knowing the rules of an art is not the same as having the habit.

It is not the stretching that tires you, but the frustration of stretching unsuccessfully because you lack the skill to stretch effectively.

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association--the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

The Need to Win When an archer is shooting for nothing He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold He goes blind Or sees two targets — He is out of his mind. His skill has not changed, But the prize Divides him. He cares, He thinks more of winning Than of shooting — And the need to win Drains him of power.

There is the claim that Noah and his family were unskilled at shipbuilding and so the feat of building the ark of such a size would be impossible. The Bible reveals that Noah had 500 years under his belt before he was given the instruction to build the ark. Unlike shipbuilders in the ancient world (post-Flood) or even up through the Age of Exploration (~a.d. 1900), few would have a resume such as Noah had! Noah also had 50—75 years (estimate) to research and build the ark.

The forlorn state of consciousness in our world is due primarily to loss of instinct, and the reason for this lies in the development of the human mind over the past aeon. The more power man had over nature, the more his knowledge and skill went to his head, and the deeper became his contempt for the merely natural and accidental, for all irrational data—including the objective psyche, which is everything that consciousness is not.

'Tis God gives skill,But not without men's hands: He could not makeAntonio Stradivari's violinsWithout Antonio.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

Champions make their own luck.

I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.