Skillful Performance Quotes

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

You bring a car out, you're going to win any dunk contest.

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at what you're doing. Do you have an explanation?"

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

You want a little talent on that?

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.

Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these things together in his basic presentation. He knows what he is doing. And how to do it. And then to his he adds his message.

I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.

Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.

Good acting is really excellent carpentry.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.

The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.