Quotes About Mastery

The best always make it look easy.

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

He felt way powerful having a physical control over this man who had interfered in his life so adeptly. The control was that of seduction.

Sofia visualised shining strings emanating from each of her fingers and connected with the souls of her puppets. All she had to do to get them to perform was to lift a finger and tweak a string.

Does wilderness exist because we do not know everything, and if we did, would there be no wilderness? As we increase mastery of our world through the spread of technology, is there a corresponding loss of wilderness?

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.

I only try to play good soccer.

I spent my whole life as a soccer player and I've honed every skill, I continue to hone them, you can never be good enough.

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

I want to speak English perfectly. In fact, I want to speak English just like I fight, and, until that moment, I find it very hard to do an interview solely in English.

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

It took me a solid four or five years to feel really comfortable in front of the camera.

Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better.

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

I try to make my flow sound like a John Coltrane solo.

I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.

Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops.

I love all my guitar solos.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

I've never actually learnt scales. I should someday.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.