Quotes About Mastery

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal 'em. Take those hands.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

Barry Cooper. Beethoven. Oxford University Press: USA, 2008

Each of us must find the form that allows this naming, this working through, and, finally, this mastery. We may find these forms in sports, in the arts, in finance, in academia, in relationship building, in child-rearing—or, indeed, in stamp collecting. But find them we must.

Or as Luther Burbank put it, "It is repetition, repetition, repetition that habituates the skill.

You must become the master of your life, not its slave.

Whatever you lay your hands on, self-esteem is visible.

Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.

When you have mastered fear then you have mastered all.

Tap into 'The Force' and soon, at any given time that you need that extra shot of high octane confidence; you will soon be like a Jedi Master at this technique.

It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.

The sooner you master your mind, the sooner you master yourself.

The twisted thing about doing what you're good at is that you aren't really good at it until you do it over and over and over again.

If there is something you think you can do well, perfect the action.

When you read and understand a poem, then you master chaos a little.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.