Quotes About Mastery

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.

For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep my head sharp, keep everything sharp.

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

Control is a nice concept, little more.

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it.

The essence of strength is not in overpowering others, but in mastering oneself.

If we can still surmount what is natural and believe what we wish to believe, in spite of the force of evidence, then for a while at least we are masters of our fate, and we can paint the world we want. I

Many of us deal badly with our pain or our need to feel as if we are in control of the world, even if we cannot control ourselves.

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful.