Quotes About Mastery

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge.

Ther nys no werkman, whatsoevere he be,That may bothe werke wel and hastily;This wol be doon at leyser parfitly.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it – from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

It was never enough for him merely to establish a result; he had to do it with elegance and grace.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.

Give yourself to these great works of art. They suffice for a lifetime.

I think one should pay so much attention to technique, don't you? Like learning to draw before you paint.

I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you.

I have to make my drawing right so that my drawing will be right.

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.

A good Technician was rarely wrong. A top Technician was never wrong.

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment.

According to our calculations, you have now reached domination of the barbarian kingdoms immediately surrounding the Foundation. Just as in the first crisis you held them off by the use of the Balance of Power, so in the second, you gained mastery by the Spiritual Power as against the Temporal.