Skill Variation Quotes

Not everybody can do everything at a high level.

I play different styles, and am very good at changing how I play.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

I like bowling. I suck at it, but I like it. You know what's so funny? I have days when I'm absolutely great at doing it, and then I have days when I just don't understand it.

Every player has different skills.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

I'm a horrible producer when it comes to me, but for other artists, I don't know what it is, but something happens, and I'm just really good at it.

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others.

You need different skills to do well in 50-overs cricket. You need completely different skills to do well in Test cricket. You need different skills to do well in T20 cricket. It is not the same.

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.

People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.

Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.

I think playing multiple sports is by far the best way to go. You're talking about different teammates, different skill sets, different mentalities.

People have to understand that they're not good at everything.

We're all born with different talents. I'm really not that smart, but I can see things - financially and development-wise. It's just the way we're made.

What one cannot, another can.

People sometimes think that if someone plays basketball, they have to do that one thing they're great at. But I like being able to show that you can do more than one thing and do it at a high level.

We are not all able to do all things.

Everybody works in a different way, and I've worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal.

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.