Quotes About Mastery

As the old saying went, Most people practice till they get it right. Rangers practice till they never get it wrong.

I see your capacity for addition has improved

An ordinary archer practices till he gets it right. A ranger practices till he never gets it wrong.

It took years of training to achieve the level of silence with which a Ranger could move.

Now," he said, "all you have to do is learn to use them. And you know what that means, don't you? Will nodded his head, grinning. "A lot of practice

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A Ranger practices . . .'?" He let the phrase hang in the air, waiting for them to finish it off. "Until he never gets it wrong

Until I get it right," she said. But he corrected her. "No. Until you don't get it wrong.

Zo eenvoudig is het?' vroeg Malcolm met een lachje. Will trok één wenkbrauw op. 'Ja, een fluitje van een cent. Als je tenminste eerst vijf jaar oefent om die pijl in dat gaatje te schieten!

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.

I pride myself, after long experience, that I can begin and stop weeping at the exact points demanded in the script.

In a world of bosses, you are your own master

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

You can be taught to write – you can't be taught to be an artist

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

In the martial art of Karate, for instance, the symbol of pride for a black belt is to wear it long enough such that the die fades to white as to symbolize returning to the beginner state.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

If there was one vice his old masters could smell out from a thousand li away, it was thinking too well of yourself. Or the other form of vanity that was thinking too little. *

One cannot serve angels, Angel. One must own them.

A weapon is only a weapon with a will behind it, and a chain is only a chain when someone holds the key.

Command was good her her, and she was good for it.