Quotes About Mastery

my motto, what it's always been. I refuse to be bad at what I do, and that includes being bad. I won't be bad at being bad. I

We seek power so as not to fall under anyone else's power

And I saw that if I were to maximize every experience available to me, I must exert my own powers over my learning.

Azért vágyunk a hatalomra, hogy ne kelljen mások hatalma alatt sínylÅ'dnünk.

However different the two might be in other ways, they both had this notion that reading up on something, getting equipped for something, would put them in control.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

The Dip is the long slog between starting and mastery. A long slog that's actually a shortcut, because it gets you where you want to go faster than any other path.

You really can't try to do everything, especially if you intend to be the best in the world.

It's insulting to call a professional talented. She's skilled, first and foremost. Many people have talent, but only a few care enough to show up fully, to earn their skill. Skill is rarer than talent. Skill is earned. Skill is available to anyone who cares enough.

real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

If you want to be a superstar, then you need to find a field with a steep Dip—a barrier between those who try and those who succeed.

Plenty of people are good at what you do. Very good at it. Perhaps as good at it as you are.

If you want to be a superstar, then you need to find a field with a steep Dip—a barrier between those who try and those who succeed. And you've got to get through that Dip to the other side. This isn't for everyone. If it were, there'd be no superstars.

Practicing how to throw. Getting good at throwing. If you get good enough at throwing, the catching takes care of itself.

If there wasn't a Dip, there'd be no scarcity.

Talent is something we're born with: it's in our DNA, a magical alignment of gifts. But skill? Skill is earned. It's learned and practiced and hard-won. It's insulting to call a professional talented. She's skilled, first and foremost. Many people have talent, but only a few care enough to show up fully, to earn their skill. Skill is rarer than talent. Skill is earned. Skill is available to anyone who cares enough.

The Dip is the difference between the easy "beginner" technique and the more useful "expert" approach in skiing or fashion design.

You use your tits the way a ninja assassin uses nunchuks.

Ranulf had spent much of his life watching those he loved wrestle with the seductive, lethal lure of kingship. It had proved the ruination of his cousin Stephen, a good man who had not made a good king. For his sister Maude, it had been an unrequited love affair, a passion she could neither capture nor renounce. For Hywel, it had been an illusion, a golden glow ever shimmering along the horizon. He believed that his nephew had come the closest to mastery of it, but at what cost?

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

In the land of Bad Ass, Acheron reigned supreme.

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

By the power of Grayskull. . . I have the power! Nick By the power of Grayskull, I'm going to cleave your skull from your shoulders if you don't take this seriously. Caleb