Quotes About Mastery

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant.

But these are only true or free choices if we have been able to awaken and heal. Otherwise, these choices occur automatically and are generated out of our conditioning, whatever that may have been. In order to have mastery over our choices so that they are indeed freely made, it is essential to be awake so that our choices are no longer unconscious.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.

I practiced writing in every possible way that I could. I wrote a pastiche of other people. Just as a pianist runs his scales for ten years before he gives his concert: because when he gives that concert, he can't be thinking of his fingering or of his hands, he has to be thinking of his interpretation. He's thinking of what he's trying to communicate.

I was impressed. She had already mastered the art of not saying much of anything at all.

The Work is about making personality passive, a servant rather than a master.

Do everything quickly and well.

Real art is knowledge not talent.

The well-being of a man is that everyone be his slave.

But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

He was skilled----at the end of the level, he could make Mario land at the top of the flagpole, something Sadie had never mastered. Although Sadie liked to be the player, there was a pleasure to watching someone who was a dexterous player---it was like watching a dance. He never looked over at her. He cleared the first boss battle, and the words BUT OUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE appeared on the screen.

The words of Anders Larsson came back to him: "To be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities.

There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities.

To be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

Maya, novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story. Master the short story and you'll have mastered the world, he thinks just before he drifts off to sleep. I should write this down, he thinks. He reaches for a pen, but there isn't one anywhere near the toilet bowl he is resting against.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of rain; a racer should embrace the rain. I, alone, could manifest a change in that which was around me. By changing my mood, my energy, I allowed Eve to regard me differently. And while I cannot say that I am a master of my own destiny, I can say that I have experienced a glimpse of mastery, and I know what I have to work toward.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

when you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable.

the key to success isn't in all the things we do but in the handful of things we do well.