Sam Abell Quotes

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

I think it now comes down to whether you have the skills or not.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Power is competence.

We all have skills, I guess.

Anything that's done correctly is easy.

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

You can never be too skilful.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

Authority does not equal competency.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

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

If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.

Every man loves what he is good at.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.