Quotes About Mastery

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

I think I just need more time to refine my skills, and I can be a dominant pass rusher.

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.

Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!

I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.

I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

Click. The door swung open. "Three," James said with a slightly self-satisfied smile. "Well done," Caroline said. He smiled back at her. "I've never met a woman or a lock that didn't love me.

I do love competence in a man.

I love her. My piano. play the sh*t outta her.

In love as in art, good technique helps.

I have fun making films. I love making films. It's the only thing I know how to do. And I do it well.

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

I dont want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

The minute you can step outside yourself and look at yourself objectively, is when little voice mastery starts.

But I'll know my song well before I start singin

The chilling precision that these old-timers used in coming up with their songs was no small thing.

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