Quotes About Mastery

I would say to the critics that they don't have a black belt in time management like I do.

The songs of Raghavan Master are timeless. There are a lot of things that a student of music has to learn from them. He expressed his thoughts not through words, but music.

I concern myself with timelessness all the time. If you're not swinging for museum quality, your mind is not in the right place. It doesn't mean you get there, but at least it's the intent.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

Fighters like Bernard Hopkins can go on because their style is not based on reflexes and timing.

My advice always is to start very simple and master your timing and master the most simple beats that you can, and you just keep elevating from that. Trying to go right into playing fast is not necessarily the best way to go about it, because if you don't have your foundation locked in, it's hard to progress.

Over the years, you get better at timing because you've been through the situations thousands of times. The ball goes over your head; he passes you on the right, left. Eventually, you just know what you have to do.

I've spent years on stage adjusting the timing of a line to infinitesimal degrees.

I believe I'm better than everybody when it comes to footwork, timing, reflexes, defense, you name it.

Lyoto is never going to lose his skills. He might lose his timing, speed, cardio, but he'll never lose his skills.

Striking isn't just about kicking and punching. It's far more complex than that. It's also about timing and range.

I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

I ain't a 16-fight novice who has only fought at British title level.

I've won every title, and I've done everything in my division.

I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you know? I wasn't thinking about that. I just think that's in my body now. Dancers don't think about their legs moving one way and their arms moving another. Over time, you incorporate that into your instrument.

I'm good at what I do but, to be honest, not a whole hell of a lot else!

For singers and drummers, you've really gotta have your chops together just to do a rehearsal.

I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is his will that we should hold absolute mastery over time, so as to devote it mainly to intellectual and moral improvement, domestic enjoyment, and social intercourse.

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don't use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success—an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.

It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look it fast.