Quotes About Mastery

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.

A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

It teaches that there is the soul, and inside this soul is all power. It is already there, and if we can master this body, all the power will be unfolded. All knowledge is in the soul. Why

We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we forget that the body is mine, and not I the body's.

you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work.

Thus the man that has practiced control over himself cannot be acted upon by anything outside; there is no more slavery for him.

There are actually eight laws of learning—Demonstration, Explanation, Imitation, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, and Repetition. The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. There is absolutely no substitute for repetition. I believe in learning by repetition to the point where everything becomes automatic… the best teacher is repetition, day after day, throughout the season." - John Wooden

It was through him that the novices began to practise levitation.

his adventure had mastered him, and till it released him there was nothing for it but to submit.

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.