Quotes About Mastery

Life is an art not to be learned by observation.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

Nothing is more to mastery than practice and skills. Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits.

With these skills, you can go for years without ever meeting a situation where you have to defend yourself.

I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it. Faithful

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

The work will teach you how to do it.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Handel was a man of the world; but Bach was a world of a man.

He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.

Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes it.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for, his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for, he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed, no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing, humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential.

The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.