Quotes About Mastery

Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect with the past holds out the greatest hope for it being able to embrace the future.

I get more relaxed. I get looser. I get more technical, I get faster, and you get to see way more of my game in the later rounds. In sparring, a lot of my best rounds are my third and my fourth. My fifth rounds are sometimes my best of all.

Tactical and technical awareness can only improve and sharpen with time.

I've evolved so much, added so many tools to my game. I feel like I've put so many things in my game that I can be aggressive but technical at the same time.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

I like to watch the great players, the ones who are technically good and understand the game. I try to see how they move.

Teaching is hard. It takes years to master the technically demanding work and a lot of effort to do that work well.

Technically, Neymar is the best player in the world.

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

I've grown tactically and technically.

Fabregas is my role model. Technically, he can do everything, and he exudes calm.

I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.

I wasn't the greatest technician when I played.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

I don't think about technique. I just pot the balls.

I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

A free-kick is a very tough technique and it's something I've always worked on.

Sometimes I put my heart in front of my technique.