Quotes About Mastery

Dust was an Angel. He was by nature a servant, even if his service often meant something more like mastery.

He accorded his art the highest respect, that of never taking it for granted. Always, as long as he lived, he tried to learn more, in order to serve it better.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Those with power never willingly concede their control.

I like swordwork. It's like riding, that way - it forces concentration, and thus opens up the world.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

A new concept had entered the modern consciousness. The idea of power not in a political sense, the ability to command people, but the ability to command nature: the power to alter and use it to create something new, and produce it in greater and larger quantities than ever before.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.

Well done is quickly done.

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

I am not designed to come second or third, I am designed to win.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

The terrible difficulty of early life—the use of pastors and masters—really is, that they compel boys to a distinct mastery of that which they do not wish to learn.

Depending on the level you're at in your company, the higher you go up in rank, usually the longer you can dance.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

Kendrick Lamar is 10-times the rapper I am, but I just feel I'm the best at getting my own point across.