Quotes About Mastery

Whatever game suits you best, learn to play both Limit and No Limit Texas Hold'em. Your overall game will definitely improve.

I love it when fighters are textbook.

If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

I've just got better as a player thanks to Pep.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

The one thing is the more I play second base, the more I can work on the intricate movements of that position.

I love music so much. It's like the one thing I'm good at.

The high note is not the only thing.

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason.

Whether by theft or by artistry or by conquest, when it comes to time, Venetians are the world's greatest experts. They bested time like no one else.

When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.

You can read books, blog posts, magazine articles (keep reading CODE Magazine, please), and watch training videos, and yet still not understand the impact of a technology in your development life. It's not until you build an application (large or small) using a particular tool, technique or technology that you will really get it.

It was the sea, and their evident mastery of shipbuilding and navigation

Mastery is an enabling condition for originality, which in turn, is a generative condition for mastery. The modes are interdependent.

Learn to write well and you will walk on water and turn wine into opium. You will speak a thousand new tongues and talk to the gods. You will live in constant and everlasting euphoria.

In the United States, a consistent finding from the National Assessment of Educational Progress is that students at all levels of testing (ages nine, thirteen, and seventeen) are generally able to show mastery of the procedures taught, but struggle to apply their knowledge to problem-solving situations that are not clear-cut matters of applying a rule (Carpenter, Corbitt, Kepner, Lindquist, & Reys, 1980).

Great athletes can at once play the game and observe it as a whole.

Technology—nobody knows more about technology than me.