Quotes About Mastery

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

writing couldn't really be taught, only learned.

No one presumes to teach an art that he has not first mastered through study. How foolish therefore for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts.

To be what it takes for truly being is the most profound skill among all that exists in any form

I've probably put my 10, 000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

You Are Your Own Michelangello Always".

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

Find something you love and do it better than everyone else.

The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. Ive never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker.

Love what you are doing because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

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

While most people approach their work with the mindset they just want to get it done, craftspeople are more concerned with who they are becoming and what they are creating whether than how fast they finish it.

Look at the score and make it come alive as if [you] were the composer. If you can do that, you're a conductor and if you can't, you're not. If I don't become Brahms or Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky when I'm conducting their works, then it won't be a great performance.

The keys to flow: There's a clear challenge that fully engages your attention; you have the skills to meet the challenge; and you get immediate feedback about how you are doing at each step (the progress principle). You get flash after flash of positive feeling with each turn negotiated, each high note correctly sung, or each brushstroke that falls into the right place.

No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything. "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all" - Michael Angelo

Forget about the 10,000-hour rule you've heard so much about. It's a red herring. What's important is not the hours you've practiced, but the kind of practice in your hours. Focus on the tree, not the forest.

To see talent as a gift of natural ability instead of perceiving the long hours of practice that creates talent is nothing new. Michelangelo said, "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

Those with a fixed mindset tend to learn things in a superficial way, just enough to prove they can do it. That's bad enough, but it gets worse. When people