Quotes About Mastery

That is the greatest error ever committed, the most disastrous error on earth: believing that in the forms of reason, we had in our possession a criterion of reality, whereas we had them in order to gain mastery over reality, in order to misunderstand it in a shrewd way... — And behold, the world became false precisely because of the qualities which constitute its reality: change, becoming, multiplicity, opposition, strife, war.

Every kind of perfection is purchased at a high price on earth, where everything is perhaps purchased too dear; one is an expert in one's department at the price of being also a victim of one's department.

Nevertheless, I am versed in the use of two weapons: saber and cannon — and, perhaps, one other . . .

In His own case, now as always, the most sorrowful moods pass into the most blissful; there is never the Cross without the Resurrection; the 'Hour' in which evil has mastery passes quickly into the 'Day' where God is Victor.

Own nothing and control everything.

When you're able to dominate and just kick everyone's butt and just wipe them out, I think that's when you feel the greatest, when you put it all together.

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.

I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Getting all the things down game-management wise, that's what I want to excel at.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

I think I always wished I could play guitar as well as Jimi Hendrix.

We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

I was a child badminton wizard.