Skill Differentiation Quotes

Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.

To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.

My skills are musical, not lyrical.

The skills associated with knowledge creation are totally different from the skills associated with production.

Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.

When I went off to college, I was expecting to be a concert musician. In music school I heard all of these kids who were just unbelievable. And I understand that you can be very, very good, but there's something that separates very, very good from great, and I knew that I wasn't great.