Quotes About Mastery

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

We should be better craftsmen of our own lives.

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

Worldy honor hath also its grace, and the power of overcoming, and of mastery; whence springs also the thirst of revenge. But yet, to obtain all these, we may not depart from Thee, O Lord, nor decline from Thy law.

Verbal fluency is the product of hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is hte product of hours spent repeating scales." p. 26

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

eigentlich jeder irdischen Leistung aufgetan gesehen: Konzentration, die Zusammenfassung aller Kräfte, aller Sinne, das Außer-sich-Sein, das Außerder-Welt-Sein jedes Künstlers. Ich hatte etwas gelernt für mein ganzes Leben.

had he been only a hardworking craftsman all his life, fitting colours together as a labourer constructs a building out of stones?

I could do it… I've seen every last episode of Forensics Files." Me, too! But I've never considered it a tutorial. The

Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.

The brake and gas were rigged to suit a man of his stature, and he handled them like Horowitz sailing through a storm of Liszt.

The John Handy Quintet was on the stereo and the song was "Naima," Handy's 1967 ode to John Coltrane.

Frank Morgan, George Cables, Art Pepper, Ron Carter, and Thelonious Monk.

A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is the kind of power that science fosters, and permits....

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live to the point.

It's an old chestnut to say that we need to keep challenging ourselves throughout life. Samuel Beckett memorably declared, Try again. Fail again. Fail better, while T.S. Eliot proclaimed that Old men ought to be explorers. More bluntly, Cyril Connolly maintained that we should cast aside whatever piece of iridescent mediocrity we are wasting our time with and get down to creating a masterpiece.

Your arrows do not carry,' observed the Master, 'because they do not reach far enough spiritually.' Eugen Herrigel Zen and the Art of Archery