Steve Martin Quotes

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

What one does easily, one does well.

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

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

I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.

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

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.

The more I get on the field, the more comfortable I am.

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

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

Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

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

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)

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

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

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.

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

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

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