Quotes About Mastery

Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors.

Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.

My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.

Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy.

I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again . . .

Things should make sense. From one end to the other, no matter from which direction one elected to begin the journey, everything should fit. Fitting neatly was the gift of order, proof of control, and from control, mastery. He would not accept an unknowable world. Mysteries needed hunting down. Like

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.

It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.

Anyone who has mastered a weapon – truly mastered it – is a humble man or woman.

I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command." The man made to rise. "But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.

You cannot have Christ for your Savior unless you also have Him as your Lord.

I can't think of any other field in which people who aren't experts critique other people who aren't experts in the hope of everyone becoming an expert.

If you're interested in mastery," says University of Cambridge, England, neuropsychologist Barbara Sahakian, "you have to learn this lesson. To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk—you're just never going to have a breakthrough without it.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity.

Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.