Quotes About Mastery

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Mastery means making progress at a task that matters to you and is challenging.

From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence. The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.

Fear" in the biblical sense…includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

A substantial and beautiful victory of all victories is to overcome your tongue.

The magic, trick, and idiocy of grammar authenticate that, when one adopts, neither and nor in a sentence that already exemplifies, verifies and qualifies its placement and grammar. No matter how since neither and nor, execute as itself, as a sentence, using nor after And as the conjunction; accordingly, mastery of objections collapses automatically.

To prove mastery requires significant scholarly knowledge; otherwise, it mirrors the tomfoolery.

Surpass the best to be the best

People were born with two hands; why not use both of them? As it was, swordsmen fought with only one sword, and often one hand. This made sense, so long as everybody followed the same practice. But if one combatant were to employ two swords at once, what chance would an opponent using only one have of winning?

Menurut satu aliran pemikiran, jika seseorang menguasai satu keterampilan, dia telah menguasai seluruh ilmu. Ilmu bela diri bukan jurus-jurus belaka-- ilmu bela diri menyangkut kematangan jiwa. Jika seseorang mengolah jiwanya dengan sungguh-sungguh, orang itu mampu menguasai segala sesuatu, termasuk seni belajar dan pemerintahan. Dia memandang dunia apa adanya, dan sanggup menilai orang.

In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

She only wants to be an instrument on which she will teach him to play.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

It goes without saying that mastering a skill engenders a sense of satisfaction, but the feeling is ephemeral and dissipates once on the plateau of competency; because this kind of satisfaction is directed toward yourself, whereas the investment of learning about the world is repaid in love—a love of the world, a joy of living, which is permanent and will last till the grave.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Hammer out the drawing. Unremitting, persistent effort will bend a stubborn ungainly sketch into a graceful finished drawing. We become tough, hardened drawing veterans.

There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesnt understand.

Epictetus, for instance, challenged the idea that we improve solely by reading books and acquiring knowledge. Instead, we should demonstrate that the knowledge has really sunk in: 'A builder does not come and say, "Listen to me talking on the art of building", … but undertakes to build a house and proves by building it that he knows the art.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.