Skill Limitation Quotes

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

The guys in the top five, they're good everywhere. Me, I'm just almost one-dimensional.

I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.

I can't make anything. I don't know how to make a dress. I couldn't go on a shoot and create an image. I can't write a script. I have so much admiration for people who can do these things, because I would have no idea where to start.

Acting is not my forte.

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Rap ain't out there for everybody; everybody can't be a rapper. Everybody can't be a singer; anybody can't just be a songwriter, but it may - there's some profession out there you can be in.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.

I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

I just love fighting. I know I'm not the best, but I'm still pretty good, there's a lot of people I can still beat. What do you do. What else am I supposed to do? I have no other skills. I enjoy doing this. There's nothing I'd really rather do, you know?

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.

I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

Even if you can be the world's best at one thing, you'll be the world's worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic sumo wrestlers.