Quotes about Skill
He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?' 'No, I have not.' 'Well, well, such is fame!
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary. If you doubt His skill in painting your life - look at the Calvary
— John Piper
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
— John Wooden
The amateur tweets. The pro works.
— Steven Pressfield
It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...
— Arthur Conan Doyle
She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.
— Ayn Rand
Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: "I can do it better than you," but simply: "I can do it." What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.
— Ayn Rand
In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
— LM Montgomery
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
— Max Born
He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.
— Alain de Botton