Quotes About Mastery

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Knowledge is power [Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est].

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge itself is power

Art depends on luck and talent.

SHOW ME;~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SHOW me a man whom KNOWS NOT, that he KNOWS NOT; He is a novitiate, Inspire him: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SHOW me a man whom KNOWS . . . . that he KNOWS NOT; He is a student, Teach him. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SHOW me a man whom KNOWS that he KNOWS, and KNOWS that he KNOWS that he KNOWS; He is a MASTER, FOLLOW Him! f.m.Faber Jr

The time we need in order to heal our wounds and finally manifest our deepest dreams is only as long as the gap between two thoughts. These are thoughts in polarity, such as separation and unity, conflict and peace, misery and joy, hate and love, etc. Since as human beings we are all capable of experiencing both thoughts, the only skill we need to develop involves mastering the GAP.

Because you could not master whatever enmeshed you you became its slave - You learned this bitterly, early. In order not to become its slave you had to become its master. You became its master. Even as master, of course, you remain its slave.

A fair estimate is that Bobby played one thousand games a year between the ages of nine and eleven, and twelve thousand a year from the ages of eleven to thirteen, most of them speed games.

Personal life is a play between powers without and powers within the central function of Will. Personal life ends in subjection to such external powers, or rises to mastery over them. 3.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

Absolute power is the power to destroy.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

once we get it, we lose it and start looking for it all over again. That's why it's called a practice. You never master it.

An expert is one who does not have to think. He knows.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose work embodies everything they hope to achieve

Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.

The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, an intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.

With a deftness born of long practice, she

Boxing's not that straightforward," said Eldric. "You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

humility in the face of the unattainable, as well as unease in the face of achievement, are both prerequisites for any mastery in life.