Quotes About Mastery

Your fragments of knowledge will lead to competence. Your competence will lead to fluency. Your fluency will intensify to higher and higher levels of fluency. The best attitude, however, is that your attempt to master the foreign language, should remain perpetually unfinished business. You'll succeed if you make sure you never go to bed knowing no more of your target language than you did when you woke up!

eliminate the self'. 'The player needs to be able to forget about himself,' she writes. 'This is when real communication begins. For with the elimination of the self, he is able to reach the very core of the music, and is free to transmit it.

A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.

For if one is to be a warrior, he has to pay attention to his trade and art. Discipline is the first rule of success.

Thus, from cradle to grave, having control over one's life matters.

We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Receiver is an art - there is not one way to do it.

Playing receiver is an art form.

I always want to improve in all my facets of the game, whether it's the receiving or blocking aspects.

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

I hit the trifecta on 'Law & Order': I did the original recipe, extra crispy and the Colonel's special.

Generally, if you're a baker who's still learning the ropes, substitutions can be risky. It's always best to make a recipe the first time as written, and only after that initial success should you make substitutions.

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.

To be recognised as the best in the whole world at something is an achievement.

A Khaled record is always the best.

There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

All my best drumming, I'm sure, has never been recorded.