Quotes About Mastery

To try and learn how to be a singer, a really good guitar player, a really good pianist, it's always lagged a bit behind learning to be the best songwriter I could possibly be because songwriting comes naturally to me.

I sit down and I write and I make sure that it follows the code of Songwriting Craft 101.

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.

I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Gene Kelly was one of the greatest dancers of all time and a taskmaster. He sought from you the absolute best - and he got it.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

I made that a point when I was creating my sound from the beginning, I didn't want to sound like anybody. Once I kind of found my own sound, I mastered it.

As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

If you can't appreciate the full worth of my courage, you can't admire my mastery.

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

Art depends on luck and talent.

Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.

Intolerance is a form of ignorance which must be mastered before any form of enduring success may be attained.

Concentration is the ability to think as you wish to think, the ability to control your thoughts and direct them to a definite end, and the ability to organize your knowledge into a plan of action

The person who understands how to inject the germ of life into motive is a master salesperson

every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind

Discipline comes through self-control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

A real student will not merely read this book, he will absorb its contents and make them his own.

YOU ARE "THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE, THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SOUL