Quotes About Mastery

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

The A is agency—autonomy, freedom, creativity, mastery; the belief that you can impact the world around you. The B is belonging—relationships, community, friends, family; the people that surround and nurture you. The C is cause—a calling, a mission, a direction, a purpose; a transcendent commitment beyond yourself that makes your life worthwhile.

Isn't it in his or her nonmastery or incompleteness that we see a possible place for ourselves in his or her affections – that is, that we glimpse the possibility that we may be able to do something for that person, be something to that person? In this sense, we perhaps love not what they have, but what they do not have; moreover, we show our love by giving what we ourselves do not have.

Competence is NOT enough.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Masters in all branches of art must first be masters in living, for the soul creates everything.

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

I am not afraid of an opponent who practiced ten thousand kicks once. What I am afraid of is an opponent who practiced one kick, ten thousand times

Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.

I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times!

To understand techniques, you must learn that they contain a lot of condensed movement.

I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.