Skill Quotes

"Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far" "Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." "I’ve practiced so much, I know pretty much what to expect" "I'll take someone with a passion for anything over someone with talent for everything any day" "I've always wanted to be somebody who knows the game, not just the rules" "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance" "Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." "As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill." "Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." "Power is competence" "Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice" "Only when a person’s skills are fully involved in overcoming a challenge that is just about manageable, so that one forgets everything else, does the activity become effortless and spontaneous" "True ease in writing comes from art not chance as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance" "To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery" "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work" "The life so short, the craft so long to learn" "Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it." "Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin" "The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person using them."