Quotes About Mastery

the best way to become successful is to master and control things you have control over.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

maybe an hour in the morning or at night and just dedicate it to that skill you have. Read books about it. Take courses to excel at it. Promise. In the next five or six months, you will be better at it than most people. Your confidence will go up and you will no longer compare yourself to others or try to be good at something just for the sake of proving to others that you are confident. You will have finally discovered what your life will be about.

We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558

They consider themselves masters at cheating. But then, I think this will be the first time that they sit at a table with mortal humans facing them. Cheating? When it comes to that, the Elder Gods are as children compared to humans. Since the time of my return, this much at least I have learned.

I can do the Sky Hook, but I'm not confident with it.

Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.

I learned the slider out of desperation.

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.

I learnt the slower ball in the post-1992 period after I saw Franklin Stevenson of the West Indies in the county circuit. I would practice in the nets, hit people on the head, have the ball fly over the nets. I got it right after a lot of practice.

Now I'm fast and under control. I can just play, seeing the game slower now.

I write very slowly.

I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.

I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.

The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.

I have been acting over 3 decades now, so I think after all these years of experience I can get into any character very smoothly.

After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Mastering one recipe is better than mastering too many. Learn something and own it, and you'll feel so much better about it. You'll have more confidence if you've made it five times, and that confidence adds so much fun to cooking.