Quotes About Mastery

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible.

I'm a really firm believer that anyone can get pretty good at anything if you just do it all the time and you just keep working at it.

Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

That's the way it was every time I studied it.

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.

Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived, bar none.

Stage time, stage time, stage time.

I am in control at all times.

I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better.

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?