Quotes About Mastery

am going to master this fear. I am overcoming it now. I speak with poise and confidence.

Haga aquello que teme hacer y, seguro, el miedo se desvanecerá, Dígase a sí mismo y siéntalo: "Voy a dominar mi miedo", y lo hará.

Golf can't be taught, it can only be learned.

Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.

and then tried to use it outside the classroom, you know that there are three things you must master: how the language is structured (grammar), how to name things you want to talk about (vocabulary), and the customary and effective ways

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

What is technique but the absence of passion?

Ralph Waldo Emerson said it this way: "Nothing external to you has any power over you."1

A masterpiece is never created in a hurry.

You better get used to it. You're going to be on the ground a lot today, but cheer up... tomorrow you'll be an expert.

A classic song has much mystery as well as mastery in its form; it sits still in the mind, throwing light on the past and the future, often bringing tears to our eyes, for it reaches into deep emotional wells that are often forgotten in the rush of the moment. The songs that touch me are on a very high level in terms of form and classic structure, and "Both Sides Now" has all of the requirements to make it irresistible.

We find the important similarity of virtue to skill in skills where two things are united: the need to learn and the drive to aspire.

No greater good can come to any man or woman than to become self-active. All the experiences of life are designed by Providence to force men and women into self-activity; to compel them to cease being creatures of circumstances and master their environment.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

Perhaps, The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master.

How deep is your game?

Sin obsesionarnos por ello, la búsqueda de la excelencia (superación no egocéntrica) y el perfeccionamiento (mejoramiento continuo) definen el arte de vivir.

what the New York Times recently characterized22 as a perfect storm in which no one, whether blue-collar or white-collar and whatever level of expertise, can afford to stand pat. "The need to constantly adapt is the new reality for many workers" was the theme of the piece headlined "The Age of Adaptation." The story had a term for what is now required of many workers—serial mastery.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

How dangerous a master human emotion is!

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.

Everything is easy when you don't know how to do it.