When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors. — Sun Simiao Copy Share Image
On a scale of one to 10, I would give my proficiency in Hindi a three. — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I've been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged seven - I got to… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people… — Robert Emerson Coleman Copy Share Image
The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's… — Jesse Robredo Copy Share Image
Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
I suppose the situation varies from field to field. If you're a mathematician, your proficiency in English may not be such a… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?" "Basically everything, except technical proficiency," Walter said. "Right." "But maybe especially the banality of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A proactive person needs no pressure to perform and an ineffective person offloads his pressure onto others to deform the positive work… — Anuj Copy Share Image
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
We should probably start searching around a little earlier in our lives for what I call parallel activities, because most of us… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All great fighting is the same, Eragon, even as all great warriors are the same. Past a certain point, it does not… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both. — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
“True artists do not create to fish for compliments and praises. They create to express the love they have for their craft.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
...but anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
“Language proficiency—either in a lingua franca, or shared language, or in a local language—does not guarantee high performance.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What matters most is for the school, the district, and the state to be able to say that more students have reached… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“we are unaware of any convincing evidence that languages are acquired through “practice.” On the other hand, studies have shown that students… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
