335 Quotes About Skill

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.

The world doesn’t pay you because you have acquired more skills or that you are exceptionally skilled at something, the world pays you for the value you use your gift to produce, the value you bring to the marketplace.

Its the Will not the Skill" Jim TunneyA skill can be acquired but unless there is a push behind it "Your Will" it wont happen.

It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.

Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.

Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr.

He smiled. "All that stuff can be learned," he said. "What you're doing now, that's instinct. And it counts for a lot.

No matter how much experience you have, how many degrees you have, or how well known you have become — there is always something new to learn. Don’t rest on your past experiences. If you do nothing to improve your skills, you won’t stay where you are.

Mediocrity is never a desirable destination....At least, not when practice might transform mediocrity to competence, or even skill.' ~ Napoleon Bonapart