Quotes About Mastery

She had written what she felt herself called upon to write; and, though she was beginning to feel that she might perhaps do this thing better, she had no doubt that the thing itself was the right thing for her. It had overmastered her without her knowledge or notice, and that was the proof of its mastery.

I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems presented to it by the modern world. For the tools of learning are the same, in any and every subject; and the person who knows how to use them will, at any age, get the mastery of a new subject in half the time and with a quarter of the effort expended by the person who has not the tools at his command.

Rehberde deniyor ki uçmak bir sanatm??. dedi Ford, ya da daha çok bir marifet. Asl?nda bütün marifet kendini yere doÄŸru f?rlat?p yeri ?skalamakta yat?yor.

Everything he did, he did well, and as a result he was an accomplished asshole indeed.

Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!

No woman respects a man when he's doing a thing thoroughly badly.

Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain.

To cry at will is not an easy accomplishment.

Do a thing well then leave it alone .

It is not for me to run here and there, doing amateurishly the things that for a small sum someone else can do with professional skill.

On the slightly apoplectic countenance of Major Barry various emotions seemed contending for mastery.

It's well-nigh impossible, sir. But this particular escape was extraordinarily well planned and carried out. We haven't nearly got to the bottom of it yet.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel ' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

But it is in the variations on Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni that the seventeen-year-old's mastery of the keyboard stands revealed. The work probably started out as an end-of-term assignment, set by Elsner in the early summer of 1827 to encourage his protégé to try his hand at a large-scale piece for piano and orchestra.

Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.

Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

My favorite artists are able to take things to the edge or just over the edge. Miles Davis and Duane Allman, for example. It's about not playing too many notes. Those guys had lots of phases to their careers, but they always played with economy and intelligence.

Whatever subject I choose, I do a PhD in it.

If drama school was like doing a BA, coming to the Court was like an MA or a PhD.

Jerry Orbach is just phenomenal. He is genius, so present.

I really had a great time shooting for Dabboo Ratnani. He is such an experienced photographer and works in perfection.

When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.