Quotes About Being Proficient

#1. Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

Nick Cave

#2. To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Friedrich Schiller

#3. Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

Albert Einstein

#4. Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Michael Symon

#5. Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids.

Kevin Sorbo

#6. One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.

Edward Swift

#7. I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.

Siouxsie Sioux

#8. If we preach a "gospel" with no call to repentance, we are preaching something other than the apostolic gospel.

Kevin DeYoung

#9. If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature ... that's what takes a long time to learn.

Ron White

#10. I will do crazy skincare things in the kitchen ... I love coconut oil, so if I come home at night feeling all dry and like a fossil, I'll put my hand in a jar of coconut oil and just mush it over my face.

Suki Waterhouse

#11. Those proficient praise no one, blame no one, and accuse no one. They say nothing concerning their self as being anybody or knowing anything.

Epictetus

#12. But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors who are more prone to being really technically proficient or visual. I feel like there are two schools of both, and a director needs to have both.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#13. I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

Johnny Depp

#14. I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

Anthony Hopkins