Quotes About Mastery

Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as "the ten-thousand-hour rule."[9]

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

The yogi tends to work inwardly, focusing on the body, whereas the magus directs the will outwardly upon the objects of the greater world. This apparent distinction is misleading, since inner world and outer world have no dividing boundary, but are an indivisible universe perceived by a single human mind. The ultimate goal is similar in both practices-to master the personal universe and yoke it to the higher aspirations.

It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

In the end, it seems that mastery has less to do with pushing leverage points than it does with strategically, profoundly, madly, letting go and dancing with the system.

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make such enormous strides in so short a time.

To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. "—I sometimes doubt if he's human," said Will, speaking his thought aloud. "It's probably all done with wheels.

Practice makes perfect," is misleading. When practicing, many people do the behavior by rote—without thinking about what they're doing. But this kind of practice does not make perfect. Quite the opposite. Instead of leading to perfection, rote practice tends to make permanent the current less-than-desirable level of ability.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

There is an art to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There is an art to flying ... or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after Cronkite had mastered the art of communicating news on television nightly without ever becoming an irritant.

be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.'" "Oliver Wendell Holmes,

To bend the entire world to his will. I'm not sure how this will manifest itself, openly or behind the scenes.

To be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.

Learn what good work is, imitate it studiously, and do that over time.

Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.

I can tell that you been practicing. All those other men were practice They were practice for me.

Musical Genius

I will continue to study at your feet, Master. I will learn from your wisdom. I will discover your secrets, unlocking them one by one until everything you know—all your knowledge and all your power—is mine. And once you are no longer of use to me, I will destroy you.