Quotes About Mastery

While drinking almost never interfered with his official duties, it haunted his career and trailed him everywhere, an infuriating, ever-present ghost he could not shake. It influenced how people perceived him and deserves close attention. As with so many problems in his life, Grant managed to attain mastery over alcohol in the long haul, a feat as impressive as any of his wartime victories.

Stanislavsky wrote that the difficult will become easy and the easy habitual, so that the habitual my become beautiful. (P224)

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

Ann rolled her eyes. She had a marvelous eye roll, refined through long discipline, precise as acupuncture.

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

one of the most beneficial things we can do for ourselves is to look for ways to exercise control over our lives—or at least to look for ways that help us feel that we do.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Art is never completed, only abandoned.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard: but if he will apply himself to learn from the objects of nature he will produce good results. This we see was the case with the painters who came after the time of the Romans, for they continually imitated each other, and from age to age their art steadily declined.

Los je ucenik onaj, koji je ne nadmasi svog ucitelja.

But the noblest painters,—Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Leonardo,—in addition to possessing the solid grasp of technical mastery, reflected some aspect of their nation's life and civilization.

Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters, were laboring in vain.

Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy – on experience, the mistress of their Masters.

El pintor es dueño de todas las cosas que el hombre pueda pensar... lo que en el universo existe por esencia, presencia o imaginación, él lo tiene antes en su mente y en sus manos luego

The question is, which is to be master? That's all. They've a temper, some of them. Particularly verbs. Oh, they're the proudest! Adjectives, eh, you can do anything with, but not verbs however.

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.