Quotes About Mastery

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.

There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.

Skill makes love unending.

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

The love of power excludes all others.

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

You can never be great at anything unless you love it.

It's important to play the pieces that you feel you can play well. It was always my dream to play Bach - my first love and fascination - Chopin, and Szymanowski.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

When you love something, you're gonna be the best at it.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking.

I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

I love hitting aces. It's not easy, but it makes your life a lot easier.

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.

Chapter 10 Precision and Professionalism

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.