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Quotes About Mastery

Q: Does it get easier? A: No, you just get better at it.
~ John Passaro
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
~ John Paul Jones
The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.
~ John Piper
What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose "god is their belly" (Philippi- ans 3:19).
~ John Piper
Jesus's solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.
~ John Piper
Yes, Hitler failed. But We will succeed. And women? Women will be out! They represent weakness!—but still they want to dominate their Masters—The Male!
~ John Rechy
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
~ John Ruskin
A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.
~ John Ruskin
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
~ John Ruskin
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
~ John Selden
He ruleth all the roost.
~ John Skelton
If a thing is done well, no one will ask how long it took to do it, but only, who did it.
~ John Taylor
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
~ John Updike
She could see wizarding was not going to be easy.
~ John Varley
In this sense, an object is of the highest degree of complexity if it can do very difficult and involved things.
~ John von Neumann
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
~ John W. Gardner
Talent alone does not make someone an expert.
~ John W. Santrock
Dominate. Intimidate. Control."241
~ John W. Whitehead
Solo puedo controlar aquello de lo que soy consciente. Y aquello de lo que no soy consciente me controla a mí. La conciencia me capacita.
~ John Whitmore
When we are first learning to do anything, we ought to expect to make mistakes and we should see our mistakes as steps along the way to competence.
~ Ellen J. Langer
The time of testing, and of playing, was over. This was the final duel for one of them. Now they were fighting for their lives--for the one life that would emerge from this elegant battle. . . . For the moment the two of them were evenly matched, arm against arm. Michael prayed that it would never stop, that there would always be this moment of utter mastery, beautiful and rare, and no conclusion ever be reached.
~ Ellen Kushner
You can't get better at things you never play.
~ Elliott Smith
To conquer the world must man renounce the world?
~ ELSA BARKER
Il cuore nelle sue gare contro la coscienza, è estroso, avveduto e fantastico quanto un maestro.
~ Elsa Morante