Quotes About Mastery

focus married with time produces mastery

If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.

Solo aquel que se consagra a una causa, con toda su fuerza y alma, puede ser un verdadero maestro. Por esta razón, ser maestro lo exige todo de una persona».

If you really want to improve your outer world, whether this means your health, your relationships or your finances, you must first improve your inner world. The most effective way to do this is through the practice of continuous self-improvement. Self-mastery is the DNA of life mastery.

Específicamente, una persona debe dedicar al menos 2 horas y 44 minutos diarios a la mejora de la capacidad concreta por la que haya optado durante 10 años

Remember, every professional was once an amateur, and every master started as a beginner.

Study the lives of the greatest men and women of the past by consuming their autobiographies during the 'Grow' pocket. Learn about the latest advancements in psychology. Devour works on innovation and communication, productivity and leadership, prosperity and history. And watch documentaries on how the best do what they do—and grew into who they are. Listen to audiobooks on personal mastery, creativity and business-building.

Legendary performers practice being spectacular for so long that they no longer remember how to behave in non-spectacular ways.

Step one is to become aware that you are thinking these uninspiring thoughts. Self-knowledge is the stepping stone to self-mastery. Step two is to appreciate once and for all that just as easily as you allowed those gloomy thoughts to enter, you can replace them with cheerful ones.

Remember, every professional was once an amateur, and every master started as a beginner. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary feats, once they've routinized the right habits.

Practice daily, because the quality of your practice determines the Caliber of your performance.

Fourth letter : Make small daily progress The way we do small things determines the way we do everything. If we execute our minor task well, we will also excel at our larger efforts. Mastery then becomes our way of being. But more than this - each tiny efforts builds on the next, so that brick by brick, magnificent things can be created, great confidence grows and uncommon dreams are realized. The truely wise recognize that small daily improvements always lead to exceptional results over time.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

When mediocrity is common, create masterwork.

The Mormon definition of life makes the earthly sojourn basically an educative process. Knowledge is necessary to mastery, and the way to deification is through mastery, for not only does education aid man in fulfilling present tasks, it advances him in his eternal progress.

When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.

Originality requires learning, hard work, the mastery of a medium and – most of all – the refined sensibility and openness to experience that have suffering and solitude as their normal cost.

Power is like money... You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life.

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography.

As with industrial methods, Rockefeller broke down cycling into its component parts then perfected each movement.

It is hard to exaggerate the power that Pierpont accrued.

From boyhood, Washington had struggled to master and conceal his deep emotions. When the wife of the British ambassador later told him that his face showed pleasure at his forthcoming departure from the presidency, Washington grew indignant: "You are wrong. My countenance never yet betrayed my feelings!

He was now a master puppeteer, adroitly manipulating his marionettes, with the strings artfully concealed.

John, I might have known it. You do things better and more easily than anyone else.