Quotes About Mastery

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.

... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.

You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now

Life is to be lived by being in charge of time.

Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.

It's key to become 'famous' for one thing first, and that will give you the credibility to go into other areas once your ready... which generally means a long time and a lot of perfecting!

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy

Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.

But I still feel awe for us—yes, for the masters who wrought lasting beauty from their hard lives, but for the rest of us, too, for the great courage all of us show in trying to wring some truth from the godawful mess of a single life. To bring oneself to others makes the whole planet less lonely. The nobility of everybody trying boggles the mind. And

The ninja master.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.

Cualquier inteligencia normalmente dotada que se dedique con interes a determinada area, llega sin duda a dominarla con cierta profundidad.

I'm great at boats!

These skill-sets usually take time to develop so the

the more you do it, the faster and better you will get.