Quotes about Skill

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.

Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult.

The first is that learning to preach is difficult, and the difficulty is not greatly relieved by having a skilled instructor or by the discovery that one seems to be naturally a "good talker.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

We are born makers. We move what we're learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands.

An artist is first an amateur.

Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee!

Aptitud suple antigüedad.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice.  7.

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.