Quotes About Mastery

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

The Japanese are the ultimate students: they analyse things in so much detail... until they have pretty much mastered whatever they are studying.

My ultimate goal in life is to be the best player in the world.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

The way I see it, an umpire must be perfect on the first day of the season and then get better every day.

There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.

When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.

I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.

I have this unbeatable move where no matter what happens I can catch the line - it's the number one thing I practice - so my philosophy there is martial arts based, never putting myself in a position where I can receive a lethal blow. I haven't missed catching the line for over fifteen years.

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

I remember, when I won at Tucson by nine shots in 1975, I would say the average iron shot I hit that week was no more than two feet off line. It was unbelievable.

I think it takes an unbelievable amount of hours for anybody to master their craft.

There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.

Headquarters in the Saddle.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Through discipline comes freedom.

When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.