Quotes About Mastery

But true mastery in The Martial Way involves more than mere physical prowess and expertise. The master warrior is a man of character, a man of wisdom and insight. These goals are far more elusive than those regarding technical expertise. Elusive they may be, but you can begin the long road towards character development by learning to recognize and pursue internal versus external objectives.

No one can teach anyone to be a great anything. If your blood is on fire with the love of language and the desire to make something with words, you probably know that.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides

Radicals always see matters in terms which are too simple—black and white, good and evil, them and us. By addressing complex matters in that way, they rip open a passage for chaos. The art of government as you call it, is the mastery of chaos.

Time could be made to serve the mind.

He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.

Gurney says there's no artistry in killing with the tip, that it should be done with the edge.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic. —T. Robbins

They compose poems to their knives.

You understand? One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.

The people who can destroy a thing, they control it," Paul

The man without emotions is the one to fear. But deep emotions…ah, now, those can be bent to your needs.

De?in controlul unui lucru numai acei ce-l pot distruge.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

The people who can destroy a thing, they control it

Specialists are not to be trusted," Leto said. "Specialists are masters of exclusion, experts in the narrow.

Subtlety and self-control were, after all

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I'm not suggesting that you don't master German. Most of the time you master it surprisingly well and if once in a while you don't, it bows before you of its own accord, and this is particularly pleasing, for this is something a German doesn't dare to expect from his language, he doesn't dare to write so personally.