Quotes About Mastery

I understand that trying and achieving are the same thing when you are your own master—and I am.

Michelangelo is often quoted as having said that inside every block of stone or marble dwells a beautiful statue; one need only remove the excess material to reveal the work of art within. If we were to apply this visionary concept to education, it would be pointless to compare one child to another. Instead, all the energy would be focused on chipping away at the stone, getting rid of whatever is in the way of each child's developing skills, mastery, and self-expression.

Fidelis was not a religious man, except when it came to his knives.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship.

An artist should appear in his work no more than God in nature. The man is nothing; the work is everything.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

How on earth does she make the English language float and float?

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call. They are inevitably, therefore, people of great power, although the world may generally behold them as quite ordinary people, since more often than not they will exercise their power in quiet or even hidden ways.

After greeting him I remarked, Boy, I sure admire you. I've never been able to fix those kind of things or do anything like that. My neighbor, without a moment's hesitation, shot back, That's because you don't take the time.

What matters is the general picture of the domestic environment, and this I have indicated, - vulgarity of character, love of glittering appearances, disorder, looseness of will, mastery of caprice, and more.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success

You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That's what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.(p.115)

To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually "developed late," since he didn't produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years.

Herhangi bir ÅŸeyde çok iyi, gerçekten iyi olabilmeniz için en az 10 bin saat al??t?rma yapman?z gerekir.

Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

eight-year-old because he's too small. So he doesn't get the extra practice. And without that extra practice, he has no chance at hitting ten thousand hours by the time the professional hockey teams start looking for players. And without ten thousand hours under his belt, there is no way he can ever master the skills necessary to play at the top level. Even Mozart—the greatest musical prodigy of all time—couldn't hit his stride until he had his ten

that extra practice under his belt, he really is better, so he's the one more likely to make it to

Most people with a serious disability cannot master all those steps. But those who can are better off than they would have been otherwise, because what is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.