Quotes About Mastery

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Shoemaker, stick to your last.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Like swimming, riding, writing or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

What I try to do is improve as much as I can so I can be the best bowler I possibly can.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.

When I was first getting into the guitar, I played it incessantly. I lived it, breathed it, ate it, and slept it. I was also extremely self-critical, so from early on, I made sure to develop good playing habits - I constantly strove to sound in tune and have a great tone, and to play cleanly and in time.

I play in tune like a cello player and use legitimate vibrato. There are no tricks; it's just all in the hands!