Quotes About Mastery

people who are good at it are the ones who have gained experience and who are keen observers.

Her kung fu is that powerful.

Romanticism demands mastery of the primary element of fiction: the art of storytelling—which requires three cardinal qualities: ingenuity, imagination, a sense of drama.

Nature is not to be conquered, man is.

People meant very little to Mike, but their performance a great deal. He worshiped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own field and he felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent;

People meant very little to Mike, but their performance a great deal. He worshiped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own field and he felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter. He loved buildings. He despised, however, all architects.

the only sin on earth was to do things badly.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." — Attributed to Aristotle

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.

But he went right back to it, trying again. He would do this over and over until he had it, and today or tomorrow he would walk. Willa remembered all this. She'd watched her kids master these first small tasks with an application of effort that seemed superhuman, but of course it only amounted to being human, a story written in genes. First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

No aru taka wa, tsume o kakusu, as the Japanese saying goes. The hawk with talent hides its talons.

The hawk with talent hides its talons.

I thought of Musashi, the master swordsman, who wrote, You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy.

Consider Science Fiction, since its formal inception as a romantic subgenre in this country in 1926 with the publication of the first issues of Hugo Gernsbeck's Amazing Stories has been known for its simple and melodramatic plots which demonstrates man's mastery (or later on loss of control of technology

The more we are allowed to be the masters of our fates, the more we expect ourselves to be.

FIRST, I THINK INCREASES IN EXPERIENCED CONTROL OVER THE YEARS have been accompanied, stride for stride, by increases in expectations about control. The more we are allowed to be the masters of our fates, the more we expect ourselves to be.

This made a pattern of movement and gesture very effective and it provoked laughter, which is a welcome thing as saving from silence, but also frightening when there are many laughing together -- it is then a sea with strange tides. Players swim in the rise and fall of it and if they lose the mastery they drown.

The master competes with no one so, no one can compete with her.

The self is a friend for him who masters himself by the Self; but for him who is not self-mastered, the self is the cruelest foe.

He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE