Quotes About Mastery

Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.

Tom Rowlands does not rush a record.

It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.

With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really make it sing.

I'm doing pretty good on my own, when I can control my tongue.

In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.

Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his guitar playing.

Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

One thing that's always been important to me is to try and build a tool kit, drumming-wise, that was diverse and wide-ranging in terms of what I played.

The ideal direction is using something like Khan Academy for every student to work at their own pace, to master concepts before moving on, and then the teacher using Khan Academy as a tool so that you can have a room of 20 or 30 kids all working on different things, but you can still kind of administrate that chaos.

I've got my speed, my precision. I have tools. I'm going to use them.

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.

I was a guy that had a lot of tools and could do a lot of other things, but my main thing was controlling the defensive end of the court.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.

I always say that practice gets you to the top most of the time.