Quotes About Mastery

I suspect competence follows from an ability to believe oneself competent.

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

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Human beings have a voracious appetite for trying to figure things out in order to gain a sense of mastery over their lives.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

Loving the game meant mastering the mechanics of the game.

God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. The moment we think we've mastered it, we have failed to be readers of the Bible.

God did not give the Bible in order that we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. The moment we think we've mastered it, we have failed to be readers of the Bible. Of course, I think we should read the Bible and know it—but it is the specific element of reading for mastery versus reading to be mastered that grows out of this shortcut.

If you want to learn the secrets of any performer, see his show twice. Then you'll notice how much of what seems improvised truly is.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to go out the window is the notion of perfection.

Over time, creative masters learn to find, evaluate, and explore more combinations than other people. They get better at guessing which combinations will be more interesting, so their odds improve. They also learn there are patterns that can be used to develop new ideas.

And the top performers know this, so they make learning a practice.

Mastery of models improves your ability to reason, explain, design, communicate, act, predict, and explore.

Duke was not what you would call a natural actor, but he learned. And when he learned, he mastered one of the hardest things of all - to act natural. And he does it so well that a lot of people still don't know he's acting. - Paul Fix

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

good communicators learn from others, by identifying and studying examples of successful expression in their chosen field.

A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finally in the right place.

I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

Enthusiasm is the first step, Artfulness comes later.

Ask any writer or filmmaker or painter just how much of a given project truly represents what he/she envisioned it to be. You'll hear twenty percent...ten...five...few will claim more than thirty. The master of one's medium is the degree to which that percentage can be increased, the degree to which the artist's ideas survive the journey -- or, for some artists, the degree to which the inevitable detours are made useful by the artist.

Lying, like marksmanship and tomato growing, got easier with practice. He

Break the rules only if you have mastered them.

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.