Quotes about Proficiency
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- Aristotle
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.
- Maya Angelou
The hard reality is that immersion works only when people are actually fluent in something.
- Mike Breen
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
- Og Mandino
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every craft.
- Exodus 31:5
If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.
- Ecclesiastes 10:10
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
- Cicero
Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.
- Simon Sinek
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
- Peter Drucker
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.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Jim Rohn said, "If you read one book every month about your industry, in ten years you'll have read 120 books. That will put you in the top one percent of your field.
- Jack Canfield