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If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation. -- Ruben Hinojosa
The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist. -- William Everson
I am so not technically proficient at all. -- Monica Potter
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. -- H. L. Mencken
I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music. -- Noel Gallagher
When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires. -- Zig Ziglar
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. -- Dave Hickey
I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient. -- Bill Joy
If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce. -- Jay Weatherill
The Philippines ranks among top off-shoring hubs in the world because of cost competitiveness and, more importantly, our highly trainable, English proficient, IT-enabled management and manpower. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema. -- Siouxsie Sioux
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice. -- Bill Budge
We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires. -- Chiaki Kuriyama
I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising. -- Lusia Strus
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
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
Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment. -- Susan Wojcicki
A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school. -- Tony Campolo
One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic. -- Dwayne Johnson
I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing. -- Viggo Mortensen
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
And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit. -- Julia Quinn
Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are. -- Stephenie Meyer
If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. -- Jane Austen
Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors. -- Sun Simiao
Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting? -- Susan Cain
You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures. -- William Eggleston
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people . -- Diogenes
Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient. -- George Ade
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. -- Amartya Sen
My parents were comfortable with me exploring areas that they were not proficient in. Some parents just aren't comfortable with that. -- Mae Jemison
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. -- William S. Burroughs
People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it. -- Brian Tracy
Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together. -- Jay Leno
The more we practice risking to leap, the more proficient we become, the more our fears melt away, and we grow ever stronger in the doing. -- Gloria Feldt
If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The interesting thing about cybercrime and the whole cyber world is that many of the people that are most proficient in it are young people, really young people. -- Patricia Arquette
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. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later. -- Charles Colson
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
Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples." -- Michael Horton
True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love. -- David O. McKay
A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone. -- Matana Roberts
It takes many years to become proficient in energy conservation. But it is something that happens. You get continually stronger. You see your attention field is far different than it ever was before. -- Frederick Lenz
It takes many years to become proficient in energy conservation. But it is something that happens. You get continually stronger. You see your attention field is far different than it ever was before. -- Frederick Lenz
Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student. -- Bruce Lee
Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to fall back since man never remains in the same condition. -- Vincent de Paul

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