Proficient Quotes

• Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Problem
  • Instrumental
  • Proficient

• I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

  

  Alan Hovhaness
  • Good
  • Piano
  • Teachers

• When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."

  

  Diogenes
  • Slave
  • Proficient
  • Auctioneer

• I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

  

  Michael Smith
  • Financial
  • Committee
  • Cambridge

• I am so not technically proficient at all.

  

  Monica Potter
  • Technically
  • Proficient

• I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Music
  • Attempt
  • Proficient

• If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Proficient

• For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.

  

  Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Shame
  • Injury
  • Proficient

• As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Truth
  • Advice
  • Proficient