Quotes About Mastery

When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.

It's hard to do, I said. Wes looked at me. What is? I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. Get it right.

The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself.

Edit more, my mantra.

Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent.

I like to be in charge of my destiny.

The Success Formula: Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Happiness

Your skills will increase with experience, which is the more fun cousin of practice. Practice involves putting your consciousness in suspended animation. Practicing is not living. But when you build your skills through an ever-changing sequence of experiences, you're alive.

A great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick

There's no denying the importance of practice. The hard part is figuring out what to practice.

Practice involves putting your consciousness in suspended animation. Practicing is not living. But when you build your skills through an ever-changing sequence of experiences, you're alive.

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The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

Wer Großes will, muß sich zusammenraffen; In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister, Und das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben.

Imitare l'inimitabile è un compito spaventoso

Schöpft des Dichters reine Hand,. Wasser wird sich ballen. __Lied und Gebilde

Seh ich die Werke der Meister an, So seh ich das, was sie getan; Betracht ich meine Siebensacahen, Seh ich, was ich hätt sollen machen.

L'arte si occupa del difficile e del buono. Vedere trattate le cose difficili con facilità ci dà l'idea dell'impossibile.

You can't go faster when you avoid technical excellence.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

been disturbed. This is why Rembrandt or Vermeer or Poussin or Chardin or Goya or Turner had no followers but only superficial imitators.

Love sharpens the eye, the ear, the touch; it quickens the feet, it steadies the hand, it arms against the wet and the cold. What we love to do, that we do well. To know is not all; it is only half. To love is the other half

That the covetous wants that which he has, as   well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is   the slave of his own wealth.