Quotes About Mastery

There is no genius. There is only the work. There is no art. There is only the craft.

Becoming sufficiently familiar with something is a substitute for understanding it.

The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life

To train in the martial arts is like being apprenticed to frustration, to the burn of effort, and the unattainable criteria of perfection. There's no glamour, no reward beyond the ones you create in your own heart. You struggle along the path and your teacher goads you or challenges you, always three steps ahead and always waiting, his eyes betraying nothing but demanding everything. And you try to give it.

What all your sex desire is Sovereignty

Lord of yourself, uncumber'd with a wife.

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.

When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

As for super-stardom, I can say that I'm ready for anything. I feel like I've mastered so many stages in my life and the cool thing is, I don't see that energy changing anything.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Strive to be the very best at whatever you undertake in life.