Quotes About Mastery

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the level of chess.

My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?

There's only seven chords, so you got to use the same ones over and over. It's all in what you do with them.

I wanted to have absolute control over my music - from the chords and the voicings of the songs to the arrangements and the production.

I don't think there is anything new left for me in choreography.

In normal circumstances, if you want a job done well, you chose someone with experience doing that job.

You should want to be the best at whatever your chosen field is.

I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

My goal is not to create a better baseball player but to create a superhuman that just happens to play baseball.

It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.

Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.

Doing a one-person play feels like you've just discovered you had a superpower.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

When I play guitar, it's automatic. I don't try to do something; I just do it. And it's already so ingrained in what I do, I don't think about it. I don't try to do something - I just do it. And the more I do it that way, the more I surprise myself. And if I surprise myself, that's the best thing.

There's nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It's wonderful music. It's - on a grand scale, there's a lot to it. There are - I can work on it for a long time and keep discovering more things, you know, that surprise me every time.

Amitabh doesn't surprise me because he has been there, done that.

Messi no longer surprises me.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

When a woman is a really good driver she is just about perfect.

When it's good it comes easy. Anything you have read or heard to the contrary is a lot of mishmash.