Quotes About Mastery

I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.

Confidence is a prerequisite to competence. Yes! because when your confidence grows, your competence is bound to grow along with it. I mean, self-confidence boosts competence unimaginably.

Self-discipline begins and ends with the mastery of your own thoughts. Because, until and unless you control your own thoughts, you cannot control your actions. -Emeasoba George

You shouldn't be worried about anything. For, whatever that worries you controls you or rather rules over you.

Când ajungem st?pâni pe boal?, devenim mai mult decât suntem, ne cre?m pe noi înÅŸine.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

He who is lucid, understands himself, explains himself, justifies himself, and masters his acts will never execute a memorable action. Psychology is the hero's tomb.

The intrinsic value of a book does not depend on the importance of its subject (else the theologians would prevail, and mightily), but on the manner of approaching the accidental and the insignificant, of mastering the infinitesimal. The essential has never required the least talent.

The ideal: to be able to repeat oneself like... Bach.

Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.

What does it mean to be a great poet? It means that you wrote one or two great poems. Or great parts of poems. That's all it means. Don't try to picture the waste or it will alarm you.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

If many man fail to be masters in their own house this is not from lack of willingness, but of talent. As for those who are ready to undergo the toils of this terrible duel, it is quite true that they must needs possess great moral force.

Talent in love, as in every other art, consists in the power of forming a conception combined with the power of carrying it out.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

My writing style has changed dramatically over the years, growing increasingly clean and exact. I like to think that I'm still improving -- that each book I write is a new personal best.

There is no point in doing something unless you do it well.

The key to magic is magic, Caerdinn had said. To be a mage, you must be a mage. There is no time for anything else, if you will come to the fullness of your power.

I am looking for my Caravaggio, always.

If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

For one whose thought is tranquil, mastery extends from the most minute particle to the vast expanse. -Patanjali

Indomitable must be God's desire To realize Life's secret and acquire Mastery, when he sends you, one by one, Eternally, to question the bright sun And the dark earth and the indifferent stars!

Do not practice mistakes. Go slow enough that you almost never make a mistake.