Quotes About Mastery

It is no diminution of power not to be able to do things which are no object of power.

The more I baked, the more I realized that the recipe was the least of my concerns. Far more important were the techniques, which were difficult to explain in a step-by-step format precisely because they depend on touch and feel.

He told me that when he went away on vacation for a couple of weeks he could lose the feel of the dough. It took a day or two to get it back. "I usually measure how good I am by how quickly 'it' returns," he said.

You can, when you choose, sharpen the pencil of your mind to a very fine point. Specialize, my boy, specialize.

Manifestation is the pretest that must be mastered in order to reach the vision.

I would not have a god come in To shield me suddenly from sin, And set my house of life to rights; Nor angels with bright burning wings Ordering my earthly thoughts and things; Rather my own frail guttering lights Wind blown and nearly beaten out; Rather the terror of the nights And long, sick groping after doubt; Rather be lost than let my soul Slip vaguely from my own control -- Of my own spirit let me be In sole though feeble mastery.

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.

To sum up: it's time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

A perfectionist has to take his time.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are God, next time you are the devil. But it does keep you coming back.

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

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space.

Today I am the greatest of all time.

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

Time was made for slaves.