Proficiency Quotes

35 quotes by 33 authors

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of… — Eric Allin Cornell
But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency… — Anthony Bourdain
The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change. — Jesse Robredo
We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing schools for their… — Nel Noddings
When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual. — Robert Genn
I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an… — Yvon Chouinard
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 has nothing to… — Jerry Saltz
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular.… — Dorothy Dunnett
It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both. — Savielly Tartakower
The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more… — Joshua Reynolds
I'll join you, sir. You'll need help finding your way about the estate."His lips tightened into a disapproving line. "Begging your pardon, Lady Rosalind, but… — Sabrina Jeffries
Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination. — Marianne Moore
Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need no further practice.… — Eric Butterworth
To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently,… — Emmet Fox
If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and… — Adoniram Judson
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency,… — George Bernard Shaw
Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill,… — Margaret Mead
I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist,… — Nicholson Baker
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I… — Josephus

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