Quotes About Mastery

Tiger Woods and Roger Federer: those two are born winners.

Tiger Woods is the epitome of what people should try to be like in this country.

There are three sportsmen: Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, and Lionel Messi. They perform with excellence, like most of us could never dream of.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

I'm a little old-school in that I think there's some value in the classics and the steps of achieving a certain profession. If we start slanging the word 'chef' on anybody and everybody who cooks, it takes away a lot.

Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.

Set pieces are something I work hard at after training, and I hit quite a lot every day.

Where I thrive is with my hands on the keyboard or my pen on the paper. One of the things I get to do is I get to rewrite. I rewrite, and I work hard on my scripts. You can rewrite until you're 'perfect,' and that's something that's safe for me.

If there is something that I should know how to do but don't, it bugs me. I feel like I have to sit down and work out exactly what the problem is.

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

I'm the all-around threat. I've got the look; I think I've got the whole package.

The main thing is I've tried to get better at everything - that includes the attacking side, being a threat, and taking people on.

I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

Like they used to say about Joe Montana, he threw soft because he couldn't throw hard. He was successful because he didn't try to do what he couldn't. I couldn't rock out harder than everybody, or overpower people with mastery like Jack White of the White Stripes, so why try? That's why I've always worked harder on words.

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.