Quotes About Mastery

Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.

There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on.

For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.

I've taken a tenacious bulldog approach to learning new skills throughout my life.

I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.

So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

Cricket and tennis are very different skill sets, but I've played tennis all my life, so it's a lot easier coming back than learning how to face a cricket ball for the first time.

I'll just let my tennis talk.

The second I was on the tennis court, I had the structure I wanted. I was in complete control of what I was doing.

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

I think with performing, initially I was terrified on stage, absolutely terrified. And I did it again and again and again, and I learned sort of how it works, and then I was able to do it.

In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for most of your daily work. It takes a few years to learn it, but once it's there, it's there. With writing, on the other hand, every new book - indeed, every new story - is a fresh and terrifying reinvention of everything.

Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.

As we get further into our career we're figuring out how to become more efficient as artists, and doing so many different things is testament to our cohesiveness as the Roots.

Expertise is achieved only after working hard on hard problems.

Learning is Problem Solving and Problem Solving is Learning

Not knowing how to cook is like not knowing how to fuck.