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Quotes About Mastery

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
~ Dennis Lehane
I don't feel like I have anything to prove. I've played this game at a high level for a long time.
~ A. J. Green
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
~ Herbie Hancock
I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
~ Anthony Hopkins
I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.
~ Lennox Lewis
I just want to prove that I am really good at something. And I haven't quite done that yet - at least not to myself. I know I could ride so much better, with more ease, with more finesse. I feel I'm nowhere near as good as I should be.
~ Victoria Pendleton
I've proved what I can do in bits, but I need to get better at everything.
~ Owen Farrell
Gracie jiu-jitsu proved to be the best.
~ Royce Gracie
Beckham takes free kicks better than me. It is a joy to watch him take free kicks and he has proved that free kicks are not all about power.
~ Roberto Carlos
Dele Alli doesn't have to show me or anyone else anything - because he has already proved his quality.
~ Lothar Matthaus
I proved that I'm one of the best in the world.
~ Jan Blachowicz
The NFL, boxing, jiu-jitsu - I did that. I'm proven at what I can do.
~ Baron Corbin
Master of the bow-string's deadly music!
~ Euripides
Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja.
~ Evan Wright
If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I never had anyone I could call "Master". No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul
~ Fernando Pessoa
It offends me that a man can master the Devil, but not the Portuguese language.
~ Fernando Pessoa
What really shocks me is how these wizards and masters of the invisible, when they write to communicate or intimate their mysteries, all write abominably. It offends my intelligence that a man can master the Devil without being able to master the Portuguese language.
~ Fernando Pessoa
In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human nature, thereby creating intellectual civilization.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ars est celare artem.
~ Flann O'Brien
I've done about anything I can fantasize about in the cold.
~ Wim Hof
Things are only daunting if they are very far away from your main skillset.
~ Aisling Bea
I know my fastball command will get even better.
~ Jason Hammel
When you can get the game to slow down for you, you can play a lot faster.
~ Terrell Suggs