Quotes About Mastery

When was the last time … … you lost track of time? … you instinctively volunteered for something? … someone had to tear you away from what you were doing? … you felt completely in control of what you were doing? … you surprised yourself by how well you did? … you were singled out for praise? … you were the only person to notice something?

For the heart was both key and lock, and he who could master the hearts of men and learn their secrets was well on the way to mastering the Fates and controlling the thread of his own destiny.

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The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.

I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.