Quotes about Skill

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

And then there are painters who never do anything that is no good, who cannot do anything bad, just as there are ordinary people who can do nothing but good.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

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

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.