Quotes About Mastery

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.

Her mastery of the language was a blissful expression of the spirit to her, like playing a musical instrument.

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

Write immediately, yes! But as artist! Write with the task in mind—always trying to say the thing in the best way you can. The how! Not the what!

Without the most humble and sedulous grappling with the inner defects there can never be any real mastery—and the most beautiful efforts will come to nought.

The hours that go to the journal are an evasion, fundamentally, of the imminent, the ever-impending problem—that of mastering your medium, of becoming the artist you are.

You need to write much much less and sweat more, go through agonies of torture in acquiring that craft which people less gifted than you or me have acquired earlier in their career.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.

Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the link that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.

His was the other road to freedom, that of dedication to his craft.

Tip 1 Care About Your Craft We feel that there is no point in developing software unless you care about doing it well.

Gain familiarity with the shell, and you'll find your productivity soaring.

No matter how great your talent, talent has to work with knowledge to do anything well.

Skill is the ability to overcome obstacles, the first of which is usually lack of knowledge about the thing we wish to do. Skill is the result of trying again and again, applying our ability and proving our knowledge as we gain it.

No knack of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.

Very few institutions thrive when they are left solely to "professionals," people who have made it their life's work to master a given domain of culture.

Like the firefly trying to match the brilliance of the stars, I had let the limits of my knowledge rule me. Man cannot change the movement of the planets with the sweep of his hands. Every man is guided by a force that is individual and unfathomable. Man can heal, but a little. Man can aid self-discovery, but only a little. No man is the master of another man's destiny. For man is no God. And fireflies are not stars.

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.