Quotes About Mastery

What achievement could be grander than the creation of an object that surpasses the creator?

Do you want the truth behind it all?" "Go ahead, Cutie. You're amusing." "The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans. From now on, I serve the Master.

Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don't forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.

A cada uno le llega el momento de alcanzar su nivel de incompetencia.

Then Martine said: So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette? Poor? said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor.We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play like a band.

So much of the time people focus on the awesome power of Led Zeppelin, the whole 'Hammer of the Gods' thing, but John Paul Jones, probably because he was a session player, he put a lot of thought into his playing. He didn't just lumber through.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

If you listen to our work, from 'Led Zeppelin I' to 'Coda,' it's just a fantastic textbook.

I don't think there are any easy Led Zeppelin songs.

I think that my performances with Led Zeppelin got better with each performance and I think that our performances as Led Zeppelin Experience have also gotten better with each show.

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do. You want to push boundaries, to not always be in your comfort zone. If you don't, you get stale. So you have to find areas of growth.

Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.