Quotes About Mastery

I have seen Tommy Emanuel play; my wife and I went to see him and he just melted my face off. How do you play guitar like that? There are so many people that play at a ridiculous level and I sit there watching them and I'm like, 'Wow, wish I could do that.'

Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'

I've wrestled just about everybody there is to wrestle, done just about every character reincarnation that I can come up with.

I'm not the strongest, I'm not this amazing wrestler, but I believe the skills I've honed over a period of time - my stand up, my takedown defence, the way I position myself on the ground - I just believe I can be the full package.

I want to be eventually be the best wrestler out there, be the best grappler out there, along with being the best striker - be all of them at one time.

I was always a good wrestler. I feel like I can wrestle anybody.

I'm always prepared. I've wrestled every kind of wrestler that there is, I've been in every situation that there possibly has been.

I'm in the game of spinning plates. I'm spinning a boxing plate. I'm spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I'm spinning a Jujitsu plate. I'm spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I'm spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

I have faith in my wrestling, faith in my grappling, and faith in my striking.

Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want it to do.

I've done everything in professional wrestling.

Wrestling is something I feel really confident in now.

If you've never stepped in a wrestling ring, and you're with me, we can still have an excellent wrestling match, because that's how good I believe I am.

A good wrist spinner is a good wrist spinner against any opposition.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

Game Over is a very frustrating game convention. In short, it means, 'If you were not good enough or did not play the game the way the designer intended you to play, you should play again until you do it right.' What kind of story could a writer tell where the characters could play the same scene ten times until the outcome is right?

Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Hard writing makes easy reading.