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Quotes About Mastery

She had a passion for all people who did anything to perfection.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Bulgakov's gentle irony is a warning against the mistake, more common in our time than we might think, of equating artistic mastery with a sort of saintliness, or, in Kierkegaard's terms, of confusing the aesthetic with the ethical.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Todo el mundo se siente feliz cuando se puede manifestar en su especialidad y jactarse de ello.
~ Milan Kundera
you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
~ Miles Davis
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
~ Miles Davis
I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.
~ Patti Smith
In order to truly master the comfort zone, we must learn to love it.
~ Peter McWilliams
The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
~ Tacitus
What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.
~ Tony Bennett
I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.
~ William Monahan
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.
~ Chris Carter
Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.
~ David Mamet
The most important thing in life is to love what you're dong, because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.
~ Donald Trump
I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.
~ Eva Mendes
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
~ Francis Bacon
Dare to learn.Dare to relearn.Dare to outlearn.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The common people know me, and I am master. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for. I
~ Bram Stoker
My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.
~ Brandon Mull
Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
The old man chuckled again. "Hei Mao, you have not even begun to master it. It is impossible to master anything in kung fu. There is always some way that everything can be improved. Now again!" They repeated the movement yet again. This
~ Brian Edwards
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be taken over by power, thus becoming its victim. —Bene Gesserit Axiom
~ Brian Herbert
Practice can take a student only so far. To truly advance, he must experience the real thing. —GILBERTUS ALBANS, Mentat manual
~ Brian Herbert
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be taken over by power, thus becoming its victim.
~ Brian Herbert
As you fulfill your own dreams, you make a difference in the world around you. When you become a master of life, you have the power to affect the lives of others inn unimaginable ways!
~ Brian Klemmer