Quotes About Mastery

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

The universe of words had always seemed to him a fascinating, forbidding territory, open only to a privileged few.

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.

As nations become corrupt and vicious," he says, "they have more need of masters." The root of the word "vicious" is "vice"—the word simply means "full of vice." So Franklin, without feeling the need to explain himself much, is bluntly saying that "freedom requires virtue." And that less virtue inevitably begets less freedom. In

In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.' Jose Raul Capablanca

Asked some years later how he (Abel) had managed to forge ahead so rapidly to the front rank he replied, "By studying the masters, not their pupils"- a prescription some popular writers of textbooks might do well to mention in their prefaces as an antidote to the poisonous mediocrity of their uninspired pedagogics.

In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century ( Hermite , 1822-1901) could say without exaggeration, ' Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.' Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, 'By studying the masters, not the pupils.

Practice makes perfect.

Wer nicht in anderen Städten und bei fremden Meistern gearbeitet hatte, durfte selber nicht Meister werden. Man mußte in der Fremde Geselle gewesen sein, wenn man daheim Meister werden wollte.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

Anxieties are diffuse states of tension (caused by a loss of mutual regulation and a consequent upset in libidinal and aggressive controls) which magnify and even cause the illusion of an outer danger, without pointing to appropriate avenues of defense or mastery.

Achieving mastery requires breaking through the shell of your own limitations—both actual and imagined—and struggling up to the freedom and enjoyment of real skill.

It seems to me there is always pain—or at least discomfort—involved in getting really good at something.

MOVING TOWARD MASTERY Don't Stop Yourself Honor How You Learn Practice

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God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

That I was a writer was further proof of God's far-sightedness; she was convinced that by some magic of propinquity she would acquire a mastery of the English language.

Inside, it was very dark but I am, if not exactly a master, then definitely an apprentice in the secret arts. And as such I laugh in the face of darkness.

There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.

It takes a lot of effort to make something look effortless

and they took pride in their professionalism and expertise.

an area in which we had little or no expertise. And,

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.