Quotes About Mastery

He is most powerful who has power over himself

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Until you become wiser, you won't become more powerful. Until you become more powerful you won't master higher magic. Until you master higher magic, you won't go into places that are dangerous. Your situation is unique. You were affected by"—he frowned—"the

Music is enough for a whole lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

Our lives are lived with the illusion of control and then there are moments rare as wisdom when we abandon the pretense that we are masters of our fate.

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

In many schools today, the phrase "computer-aided instruction" means making the computer teach the child. One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer and, in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intimate contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.

mastering one's future must surely start with managing one's "self." And if we could accomplish that, we could manage and master at least a part of what we call "life.

And, mastery is an asymptote: It's impossible to fully realize, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and alluring

I can create any musical combination of sounds on my piano. That's my superpower.

He was clearly used to sucking in the universe, examining it, then bending it to his will.

I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

I certainly realize that not only do I like the horror genre, but I'm getting really good at it and I'm having a good time making them.

Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.