Quotes About Mastery

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.

Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.

With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.