Quotes About Mastery

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.

Yes, I am smarter than you—all of you. And someday I will prove it! Someday you—with all your strength and charm and good looks—you, all of you, will call me master!

Even if I am twisted and warped." Raistlin's voice rose with harsh arrogance. "Yes, I am smarter than you—all of you. And someday I will prove it! Someday you—with all your strength and charm and good looks—you, all of you, will call me master!

And that's my title, now. Master of the Games.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A

Tehching Hsieh—for me, always a true master of performance art, and one who truly represents transformation. Tehching has made five performances in his life, each of them lasting for one year. He followed this with a thirteen-year plan, in which he made art without showing it. If you ask him what he's doing now, he will say he is doing life. And this, for me, is the ultimate proof of his mastery.

Macht ist nur die leere Erhöhung des eigenen Willens über den Willen anderer.

Once you slaughter the lamb, you are capable of everything and anything, and the world is yours.

We still talk in terms of conquest," she observed. "We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe." Without hesitating, she delivered her final blow: "I think we're challenged as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.

I've had a profession for a number of years, and it has mastered me. A profession is like a great snake that wraps itself around you. Once you are enwrapped, you are in a slow fight for the rest of your life, and the lightness of youth leaves you. You don't have time, for example, to think about the city even as you are walking through it.

One of the reasons you can't learn everything you need to know about leadership from a seminar or a book is that leadership is, ultimately, an art.

Whatever you are, be a good one. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Why do we lose interest in physical mastery? If I feel like turning cartwheels--and I do--why don't I learn to turn cartwheels, instead of regretting that I never learned as a child?

Yesterday they called it coincidence today its synchronicity tomorrow they`ll call it skill.

Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.

His hands flew, twirled, an entire ballet with ten digits. It had taken him, he told me, three years, during his training and apprenticeship, just to be considered as having mastered rice alone. For three years in his first kitchen, it had been all he'd been allowed to touch.

Power, power, everybody like wants power

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power—it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

I soon discovered this book really isn't about money, it is about creating the life you want, and part of that is deciding what role you want money to play in it. We all have money in our lives; what matters is that you master money and it doesn't master you. Then you are free to live life on your own terms.

how you are going to master money.

The movers and shakers of the world are often professional modelers—people who have mastered the art of learning everything they can by following other people's experience rather than their own. They know how to save the one commodity none of us ever get enough of—time.