Quotes About Mastery

Behind a little art there is a great artist.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.

The future of the human race depends on your thoughts and actions. But your teachers and masters don't tell you how you really think and what you really are; no one dares to confront you with the one truth that might make you the unswerving master of your fate. You are "free" in only one respect: free from the self-criticism that might help you to govern your own life.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Whether professionals have a chance to develop intuitive expertise depends essentially on the quality and speed of feedback, as well as on sufficient opportunity to practice.

true experts know the limits of their knowledge.

Little repetition is needed for learning.

A aquisição de habilidades exige um ambiente regular, uma oportunidade adequada para praticar e um feedback rápido e inequívoco sobre a precisão dos pensamentos e ações.

Acquiring expertise in chess is harder and slower than learning to read because there are many more letters in the "alphabet" of chess and because the "words" consist of many letters. After thousands of hours of practice, however, chess masters are able to read a chess situation at a glance.

two basic conditions for acquiring a skill: an environment that is sufficiently regular to be predictable an opportunity to learn these regularities through prolonged practice

Emotional learning may be quick, but what we consider as "expertise" usually takes a long time to develop.

As you become skilled in a task, its demand for energy diminishes. Studies of the brain have shown that the pattern of activity associated with an action changes as skill increases, with fewer brain regions involved.

As you become skilled in a task, its demand for energy diminishes.

Can that be called perfect knowledge . . . If one is not released while enjoying the pleasures of sense? 2 sings Saraha, one of the Buddhist masters who lived sometime between the second and seventh centuries.

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

unqualified success. As you know, Bishop Lorenzi

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Mastery itself was the prize of the venture."1

in order to become a master of the unorthodox, you need to know the orthodox very well.

Doing two things like a half-wit never equals doing one thing like a whole wit.

sabiduría es el arte diligentemente adquirido para vivir con destreza.

through a scenario where he fails, and then you put him through it again and he succeeds. First you revealed a flaw in his armor and then you taught him how to shore up that weakness. In so doing, you brought him out the other end of the exercise as a superior warrior.