Ely Culbertson Quotes

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.

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

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

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

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

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 first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

An expert is anyone who can already do what we want to do.

The reason everybody is so amazed and enamored with me right now is because I have worked every angle, I have worked every formula, I have worked every equation, I have seen every club, I have seen every performance, I have seen every joke, I have studied, I have done my job. That's why I'm good. It's not because I got up one night and decided I wanted to tell some f - -ing jokes.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

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.

We're playing at our level of ability.

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

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

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

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.

When you play, you get an opportunity to hone your craft.

I know what I can bring to the table wherever it is.