Quotes About Mastery

The best way to be effortlessly spontaneous is to rehearse to the point of mastery.

you prepare for a pitch, meeting, speech, or negotiation, the goal is to know your material so well that you are free to be in the moment.

We respect and recognize the deliciously indulgent desire in life but balance that with a specific goal, an ulterior motive to maintain self-discipline and gain insight and self-mastery equally.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

Philosophy believes she has not made a bad use of her resources when she has bestowed on Reason sovereign mastery over our soul and authority to bridle our appetites.

There is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it

As my professor remarked after he heard me say I was learning to play the bassoon, "No, you're playing the bassoon. Someday you'll play it better!

To become masters of love, we have to practice love. The art of relationship is also a whole mastery, and the only way to reach mastery is with practice.

Finally, if you are aware that no one else can make you happy, and that happiness is the result of love coming out of you, this becomes the greatest mastery of the Toltecs, the Mastery of Love.

Finally, if you are aware that no one else can make you happy, and that happiness is the result of love coming out of you, this becomes the greatest mastery of the Toltec, the Mastery of Love.

You have practiced all of your life to be what you are, and you do it so well that you master what you believe you are. You master your own personality, your own beliefs; you master every action, every reaction. You practice for years and years, and you achieve the level of mastery to be what you believe you are.

If you do your best always, over and over again, you will become a master of transformation. Practice makes the master. By doing your best you become a master. Everything you have ever learned, you learned through repetition. You learned to write, to drive, and even to walk by repetition. You are a master of speaking your language because you practiced. Action is what makes the difference.

the mastery of transformation is the process of unlearning what you have already learned. You learn by making agreements, and you unlearn by breaking agreements.

If you do your best always, over and over again, you will become a master of transformation. Practice makes the master. By doing your best you become a master. Everything you have ever learned, you learned through repetition. You learned to write, to drive, and even to walk by repetition. You are a master of speaking your language because you practiced. Action is what makes the difference. If

He had spent a lifetime cleansing his mind of poison. He had searched his heart, found the corruption, and removed it. He had torn away the lies—lies he'd been told and had believed, and lies he had devised and used against himself. This was his mastery—the purification of the mind and the recovery of authenticity. This scene symbolized the mastery of death, the awakening.

If you're always transforming — if your dream is always changing even if you don't want it to change — why not master the transformation and create your personal heaven?

Nos comportamos de una manera determinada sólo porque estamos acostumbrados a actuar y a reaccionar así. Pero para convertirnos en maestros del amor tenemos que practicar el amor.

Eres tú el que controla el conocimiento o es el conocimiento el que te controla a ti?»

Personal freedom comes from embodying intent, love, and gratitude... this is the mastery of life.

We were brought into this world as authentic beings, and then we began to practice "who we are" until it became a mastery. At any stage in our adult lives we can unpractice; we can let go of our attachments to an identity . . . and we can be.

The stars and cosmos abandoned Napoleon when he abandoned Josephine. There is a universal cosmic law that there can only be one Spiritual Wife for each Master or Cosmic Hero. If he abandons his Spiritual Wife, the stars and cosmos will abandon him.

I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle. You should, too.

When you're a mile outside the limits of your competence, there is some comfort to be had in sounding like you know what you're doing.

She had a passion for anyone who did something top-notch.