Quotes about Proficiency

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: "I can do it better than you," but simply: "I can do it." What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well. — Thomas Hudson

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

Maintenance is as much art as it is science.

A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.

We all have our skill sets, right?