Skill Trade-off Quotes

I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

I knew I was a good singer - I've been singing my whole life, so I was comfortable enough with that - I felt like I could compensate with not being great on guitar.

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

As my guitar playing dwindled, something else in my music got better.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

My proficiency with ballet was on a steep decline the more I skated.

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

I sometimes worry that maybe it's better to be really good at one thing than be okay at a couple things.

I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success.

At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you have to really churn them out which I think probably helps you develop certain muscles. I'm not sure though that you really want to have those muscles as a director.