Quotes About Mastery

Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.

There's only a handful of chicks in the world who can climb big walls on my level.

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

Everything has technique to it. So if there's something you wanna try out, I think it's always good to get a trainer or listen to people who know what they're doing.

I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours.

I wanna compete; I wanna be the best at whatever I do.

No matter what it is, I wanna be great. I wanna be be the best at it.

I wanna be the greatest to ever play my position. One of the best to ever play the game. Hopefully, be a Hall of Famer.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

In order to become a master, you need to emulate. If you're going to be as big as Warhol has become in art, then you have to have younger generations who are exploring your work and trying to understand it like a language.

I always remember sitting with my son, Anthony, at Arsenal one night and watching Barcelona during the warm-up. Messi launched this ball miles into the air and then killed it dead with his foot when it came back down. Anthony and I just looked at each other. Normal human beings aren't capable of doing that.

There's so many players that I love and admire. Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Mike Landau, Robben Ford, Lee Ritenour, Jay Graydon, John Scofield, Warren Haynes - the list goes on and on.

When I dreamed about flying, it was as a skill I needed to regain.

Pentesting is not a technique, it's a skill. A technique is obtained through knowledge, A skill is obtained through practice.

Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

I am the owner of the sphere,Of the seven stars and the solar year,Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.