Quotes About Mastery

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

He taught me how to fly on my own and learn the tricks.

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.

Knowing one thing well empowers you and gives you a set of tricks to the trade that you can apply across the board. Go deep, and it will serve you when you make your choices about where you want to leave your mark.

Seasoned queens can also learn new tricks, right?

Contest skating is about figuring out the hardest tricks you can do that you can also land every time. It doesn't matter if it's a kickflip back lip or a kickflip front board or a hardflip. Any trick you feel really confident in and you can land any time, those are the tricks you bring to the contest.

I have some tricks in my mind and would like to first try them out in the practice sessions.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

In karate, as your skill level increases, your instructor presents you with the next belt. But in poker, only you can decide when it's time to graduate to the next level. That's a tricky proposition for some players because it's difficult to assess your own progress.

Over the years, I've tried to express myself through my feet, which have made everything simpler for me ever since I was a child.

I definitely tried to skateboard in middle school, and being from San Diego, surf and skate culture is a big, prevalent thing. But I was not that good - I was kind of a chubby kid and didn't totally master skating.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree.

If you give me six tries, I can probably land a kick flip.

Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.