Quotes About Mastery

You have to learn the rules of the game, and then you have to play better than anyone else. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

what matters is that you master money and it doesn't master you.

happiness, and trust he needed. "He who knows much about others may be learned, but be who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but be who has mastered himself is mightier still.

In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes from hardness of heart rather than from high purpose, or true courage.

We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it.

Excellence is not an act, but habit.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence.

You should practice these until they are your second nature.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

Jan had always been a good pianist—and now he was the finest in the world.

Then I remembered that these men didn't seem any cleverer than I was; they were highly trained, that was all. If one worked hard enough, one could master anything.

In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

L'homme c'est rien—l'oeuvre c'est tout

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

The tension between the harsh super-ego and the ego that is subjected to it, is called by us the sense of guilt; it expresses itself as a need for punishment. Civilization, therefore, obtains mastery over the individual's dangerous desire for aggression by weakening and disarming it and by setting up an agency within him to watch over it, like a garrison in a conquered city.

The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction.

It is plainly the case that children repeat everything in their play that has made a powerful impression on them, and that in so doing they abreact the intensity of the ecperience and make themselves so to speak master of the situation.

Tel était le sens de ma vocation ~adulte, je reprendrais en main mon enfance et j'en ferais un chef-d'oeuvre sans faille.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.