Jay-Z Quotes

If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Anything that's done correctly is easy.

I've got my speed, my precision. I have tools. I'm going to use them.

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

If I have the choice between experience and talent, I'm taking talent every time.

Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.

I'm experienced. I've played at the highest level for a long time and done a lot of things in the game.

You can't say that I don't have the skills. You can't say that. I have the skills.

The more experience you have, the more confidence you get and the more ready you are.

Where a new guy may only know one or two ways to do something, I know all of the moves, and I've forgotten more stuff than the newer guys might even know.

I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs!

Success is really about expertise.

What one does easily, one does well.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

You have to be a master to teach.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.