Quotes About Mastery

Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.

that the most potent power in the entire world came from having power over someone else.

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

The future belongs to the competent. Get good get better be the best.

Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas modeled their approach on Jane Goodall's: they began their studies by relinquishing control. In the masculine world of Western science, where achievement is typically measured by mastery, theirs was an unusual approach.

Think of a word you associate with power. /Your/ safeword, angel. Choose it

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I have a call.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.   I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

I will be a little god in my small way.

Se eu nunca aprendesse, nunca teria que colocar aquilo em prática.

Having top-of-the-line tools is imperative, but being the top-notch carpenter who masterfully uses those tools is even more critical.

Practice is called practice because it is not meant to be perfect.

But he spoke English better than I, he having mastered it, whereas I was only born to its careless use.

I know how to boil water, that doesn't make me a gourmet chef.

He has artistry, he repeated. Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm.

A knight must develop all his abilities, to the fullest.

A sudden thought shocked him to the bone. I could leave Carthak when I'm a master. I'd never have to think about the games again.

But I've only been at this mage business four years. I have some catching up to do—

You have conquered, Galilean.

I once heard that Lord Martin can recall the exact details of every race he's ever been in and all the mistakes the other skippers made, and he doesn't require a chart or tide table when he's at the wheel. He keeps everything stored in his head like a scientific tactician.

Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.

we find only one tool, neither created nor invented, but perfect: the hand of man.