Quotes About Mastery

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.

He understood that letting the magic guide him, that letting it think it was in control when actually it wasn't, allowed him to be its master.

Power corrupts, and if not watched carefully, if not kept under control, it will come to dominate the user.

seen into existence. Magic is invisible until applied. It is hidden within you. To bring it alive requires mastery, so that you can shape it as you want.

These will be punishing, but you will come to love them. When you have mastered that, you will begin to train with weapons.

As the German philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote, revolution is not a runaway train; it is the application of the emergency brake. It is capitalism which is out of control, driven as it is by the anarchy of market forces, and socialism which attempts to reassert some collective mastery over this rampaging beast.

Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

it didn't matter how hard you could swing a sword, if you couldn't hit anything.

Everything about him: the way he shot an arrow; the way he carved; the way he used a sword; even the way he walked with such fluid reasoned intent—they weren't separate things, separate abilities…they were all the same thing.

what is commonly thought luck is often merely the result of incessant practice.

and to whose unsurpassable mastery of ballistics and biomass energetics we owe our third sun that now shines above us with its own famous on-off switch....

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE And what's that? A SHARP EDGE.

it wasn't the wearing of the hat that counted so much as having one to wear. Every trade, every craft had its hat.

in order to really possess knowledge, whatever it may be, you must put it into practice, that is, master your nature so as to be able to express this knowledge in action. ... You are still very young, but you must learn right away that to reach the goal you must know how to pay the price, and that to understand the supreme truths you must put them into practice in your daily life. That's all.

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman.

I'm an elite, recreational juggler.

If the jump is perfect, you come out, and you feel like you took a three-pointer in basketball or doing the perfect thing in whatever your sport is. You just get that adrenaline rush, a sense of satisfaction, like you want to do it again and again.

The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.

After sessions, I keep working and practising with the left foot. Hopefully one day, it'll just be fluent.

If you want to really learn your playbook, you just do it.

I think we're just one of those bands that we know what we do best.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.