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Quotes About Mastery

What was that action? (Aimee) Chuck Norris meets Jet Li. (Dev)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life is too long to know C++ well.
~ Erik Naggum
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.
~ Frederick Lenz
A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.
~ Frederick Lenz
Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.
~ Melody Beattie
Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.
~ Paulo Coelho
I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after.
~ Peter Orner
The proper school to learn art is not life but art
~ Oscar Wilde
It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
~ Randy Quaid
He only who gave life has a power over it.
~ Samuel Richardson
An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.
~ Laurence Gartel
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
As we, like the abductees, permit ourselves to surrender the illusion of control and mastery of our world, we might discover our place as one species among many whose special gifts include unusual capacities for caring, rational thought, and self-awareness.
~ John E. Mack
It has been suggested that the aliens are many thousands of years ahead of human beings in their mastery of various technologies. Perhaps so. In any event, we cannot begin to answer any of these questions within the framework of modern science.
~ John E. Mack
Because speaking while watching things has always been difficult for me, learning to drive a car and talk at the same time was a tough one, but I mastered it.
~ John Elder Robison
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —PABLO PICASSO
~ John F. Demartini
the world was so big, so full of things I could master.
~ John Fante
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel the need to get the better of their masters. They're bad enough when they're learning. But when they graduate, they become unbearable. [The Kings of Clonmel Pg.268]
~ John Flanagan
Keep practicing," he told her. "Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her. "No. Until you don't get it wrong.
~ John Flanagan
Keep practicing," he told her. "Until I get it right," she said. But he corrected her. "No. Until you don't get it wrong.
~ John Flanagan
Do a few simple things really well, instead of a lot of complicated maneuvers that can go wrong in the heat of battle.
~ John Flanagan
Don't practice until you get it right, practice until you never get it wrong
~ John Flanagan