Quotes About Mastery

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it.

It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

I love learning new techniques.

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

Still more beautiful were the intrigues of young Michelangelo. One day while still apprenticed to the Florentine painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, he was lent an old master drawing of a head to copy. He rendered it so precisely that, in the words of his first biographer, Ascanio Condivi, "when he returned the copy to the owner in place of the original, at first the owner did not detect the deception, but discovered it only when the boy was telling a friend of his and laughing about it.

Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering. Then you have positioned yourself where the terror of existence is under control and you are secure, but where you are also alert and engaged. That is where there is something new to master and some way that you can be improved. That is where meaning is to be found.

Rules are there for a reason. You are only allowed to break them if you are a master. If you're not a master, don't confuse your ignorance with creativity or style.

It is far better to render Beings in your car competent than to protect them