Quotes About Mastery

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

I am learning self-defense techniques.

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

I wanted to make '13 Assassins' in the old manner, to use old techniques and not to rely on modern-day ones such as CGI, or editing that changes the speed.

When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

If you can master a four-hour morning television show, you can really do anything on television.

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

I met Edward Teller. Everything he believed in and stood for was antithetical to what I believed in and stood for. I like running into that in life. I like extreme points of view, a level of commitment - and I certainly love mastery.

I have enough experience, and I can do my Telugu dubbing perfectly without any help.

It took me just a couple of months to pick up Telugu.

I could easily master Telugu, but picking up Malayalam was challenging.

Technique is the main thing when it comes to success at the top level. The sound temperament comes into work only when you have a sound technique.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

Stalking the Angel [Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over." [Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?" [Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me.

Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism is generally studied only by advanced students of physics, but Albert had mastered it by the time he was sixteen years old.

Ted was on a roll

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

It's like anything you do; if you want to do it well, you have to work at it.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.