Quotes About Mastery

True experts continually deepen their mastery of the basics.

The depth with which you master the basics influences how well you understand everything you learn after that.

The simple and familiar hold the secrets of the complex and unknown. The depth with which you master the basics influences how well you understand everything you learn after that. Today

Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

not (as most do) to learn my trade in the Forum, but so far as possible to enter the Forum already trained.

I had the gift, and arrived at the technique That called up spirits from the vasty deep...

I love proving that I can do something.

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.

Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.

I have one of the purest shots in the whole entire world, in the league.

I'm committed to the purity of my art form.

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and it's - It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.

I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.

I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

When I'm on with my putting, I'm as good a putter as there is, probably.

I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.

I want to put on performances no one else has. I want to be flawless every time.

Guys do dives because they don't know how to work. Guys do flips because they don't know how to work.

I really feel like there's nothing I can't do on the floor.

With confidence, you feel like you can pretty much do anything on the floor.