Quotes About Mastery

When things turn weird, the weird turn pro.

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master.

Now climb, young grasshopper, so your Kung Fu won't be weak.

Kate Daniels, deadly swordmaster. Fear my twitching pinkie.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

Master your craft, be nice and stay humble.

Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

Anything you train can be improved upon. If you do it over and over again, your body is going to remember these moves and not be surprised in the game.

I think the thing that I think about the most when I consider my father's philosophies is attaining that third stage of performance where you no longer have to think about what you're doing; you've worked long and hard enough to be able to have your body respond when you want it without your mind getting in the way.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage.

I thought magic tricks would be a really good way to start conversations. I looked them up on YouTube and slowly mastered them.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.

I think, at some point, all of us - I'm gonna speak personally, not for everybody else - you're gonna feel like a one-trick pony, and you might even be a one-trick pony. But at some point, if it's a really good trick, everybody's still gonna appreciate it.