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Quotes About Mastery

I have no guitar technique.
~ Warren Zevon
I never had a problem with technique.
~ Ronaldo
I was just trying to be immersed in my technique and I was actually immersed in it. That is the difference between really performing well and not performing well at the highest level.
~ Abhinav Bindra
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.
~ Tony Bennett
You lose speed, that's normal, but the technique you never lose.
~ Robert Pires
I'm the complete technique of rhyme. I don't have no boundaries.
~ Tech N9ne
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.
~ Joan Sutherland
If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
~ Nigel Kennedy
Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.
~ Ron Silver
I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.
~ Robin Trower
If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
~ Nigel Kennedy
You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.
~ Jacques Pepin
These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.
~ Elaine Stritch
I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.
~ Ali MacGraw
We work so hard on our craft, and once we get out of Duke Ellington, there are not going to be people looking for technique. I worry about that a lot.
~ Corey Hawkins
Messi has the best technique in the world.
~ Neymar
The biggest challenge to me is always technique.
~ Marion Cotillard
When I first got into the league, I just used to run. Just run the route. Really no technique to it. I really couldn't separate myself from the defender.
~ Rob Gronkowski
If you can keep a character fresh and alive for, let's say, six months, working eight nights a week, then you can do anything. You have honed your technique and your skills to such a degree by that point that you are ready to take on all kinds of challenges.
~ Joe Morton
I'm always learning and getting better with my technique.
~ Sage Northcutt
A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't do the research and development. I didn't take it to the next level.
~ Eddie Bravo
There are way more powerful climbers compared to me but I think I can really take advantage of all my power due to my technique.
~ Adam Ondra
Technique wasn't my favorite thing to learn, and I doubt I would be great teaching it.
~ Brian Urlacher
I've been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I'm always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.
~ Jose Andres