Quotes About Mastery

It takes sometimes years in the market to get the tuning to the right place where your game is as compelling at level 100 as it was at level 10.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

Chess.com is my home turf.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

Every time I shoot a turnaround, I feel like nobody can block it.

Finesse is catching the baseball on the edge of your glove when you're turning two, making the one-handed grabs and shoestring tackles by running across the field in football. And finesse is what I bring to fighting.

The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.

Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning.

Everything I touch turns to gold.

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!

I've been playing the bass guitar for almost twelve years and fretless for about nine, so I've got quite a bit of mileage in my hands already.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I've told you to make it. Twice. The first time you'll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments.

When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.

Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

Everybody wants power and control in their life.