Quotes About Mastery

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever you're doing. It will give you an advantage because most people don't do this.

Seeing me before him, / The adversary attacks, / But by that time / I am already standing / Safely behind him.

There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.

Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told

There's only one way to be a pilot, and that is to get this entire river by heart. You have to know it just like A B C.' That was a dismal revelation to me; for my memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

When I say I'll learn {footnote ['Teach' is not in the river vocabulary.]} a man the river, I mean it. And you can depend on it, I'll learn him or kill him.

Competence was attractive.

Ser bueno en algo era interesante.

An expert is a man who doesn't make the slightest error on the road to the Grand Illusion.

The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language...

Being able to draw well', he goes on, 'is the hardest thing – far harder than painting, as one can easily see from the fact that there are so few great draughtsmen compared to the number of great painters – Ingres, Degas, just a few.

so often with Michelangelo, the strangeness is inseparable from the power of the work.

He never signed anything ever again, because he didn't need to. From this point onwards, it was always obvious whose work this was. It was installed by July 1500 – if not before. The Pietà made his name: he was twenty-five years old.