Quotes About Mastery

Power is based, at bottom, on the ability to kill; thus the means of killing have to be available, even if only to a select few.

Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot separate technique from expression. There is only expression.

God as Architect, I Engineer!

There's something about doing a job well that is akin to art.

Ultimately, physical, psychological and spiritual mastery are one and the same. The egoless self is open, flexible, supple, fluid and dynamic in body, mind and spirit.

The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.

I'm chasing perfection.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

It looks like he's seducing the music out of the piano, and though I know nothing about piano performance, I can see that to be great, a pianist has to do just that… seduce the instrument, win it over, become part of the great, beautiful piano and the music itself.

When your essence is that powerful, you have to learn how to harness your abilities and control them." "My essence?" Wasn't that a brand of shampoo? Day, Kristen (2014-09-22). Forsaken (Book #1) (Daughters of the Sea) (p. 95). Kristen Day Books. Kindle Edition.

Theology masters the man; the man is never to master the theology.

The idea that the will should master nature—creation—is, after all, plausible only under certain conditions.

la pasión es la clave para dominar la habilidad de hablar en público.

In Mastery author Robert Greene argues that we all have the ability to push the limits of human potential.

I was intensely curious because Cézanne is one of my favorite artists and the man who set the stage for much of modern art. Here's what I found: Some of the paintings were pretty bad. They were overwrought scenes, some violent, with amateurishly painted people. Although there were some paintings that foreshadowed the later Cézanne, many did not. Was the early Cézanne not talented? Or did it just take time for Cézanne to become Cézanne?

the major factor in whether people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.

training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way. Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.

Instead of letting the experience define him, he took control of it. He used it to become a better player and, he believes, a

Lo que quiero decir es que incluso cuando piensas que algo no se te da bien, todavía puedes meterte de lleno en ello con entusiasmo y mantenerlo. En realidad, si te sumerges de cabeza en algo es porque no lo dominas. Esto es un rasgo maravilloso de la mentalidad de crecimiento: no tienes que pensar que ya eres excelente en algo que quieras hacer y que disfrutas haciendo.

people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.

Mozart labored for more than ten years until he produced any work that we admire today.

The paradox is that once you fully commit to being who you already are, having what you already have, and hugely celebrating it, you become a masterful practical magician, a force of nature capable of shifting circumstances very easily.

Draw, Antonio, draw, said Michelangelo to one of his apprentices. Draw and do not waste time.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.