Quotes About Mastery

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Prostota to ostatnie osi?gni?cie. Po zagraniu ogromnej ilo?ci nut i wi?kszej ilo?ci nut, prostota staje si? ukoronowaniem sztuki. (Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.)

Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.

La regla de las diez mil horas

El conocimiento es un superpoder

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

First master the fundamentals. When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro. I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody--somewhere--was practicing more than me.

There is no shortcut to excellence.

as simple as breathing but difficulty to control

I have Conquer'd, and shall still Go on Conquering. Nothing can withstand the fury of my Course.

I am always doing that which I cannot do in order to learn how to do it." Pablo Picasso.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Tactics flow from a superior position.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

I've never shot like that in my life. That's unholy." Uncle Cal claimed credit for teaching her to shoot, but while Margo had felt his guidance, she had felt just as strongly the guidance of the gun itself. It held her steady, and then sadness perfected her aim.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

To become the master of his circumstances--to override them, as the stately ship overrides the waves, stormy or smooth, as her obedient element--not 'whelmed and lost in them--this is the aim and effort of every loftier nature.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy.

Bezos had absorbed the lessons of the business bible Good to Great, whose author, Jim Collins, counseled companies to acquire other firms only when they had fully mastered their virtuous circles, and then "as an accelerator of flywheel momentum, not a creator of it.

With green envy, she watched Henry's effortless mastery of the automobile. Cars are his servants, she thought. "Power steering? Automatic transmission?" she said. "You bet," he said. "Well, what if everything shuts off and you don't have any gears to shift. You'd be in trouble then, wouldn't you?" "But everything won't shut off." "How do you know?" "That's what faith is. Come here.