Quotes About Mastery

Judged by accepted canons of statecraft, the white man towered the indisputable master of the planet.

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.

You still got a ways to go.

The master painter makes art with any brush.

Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

It has taken years and years, starting early in childhood, for the emotional brain to acquire its repertoire of habit. Schemas like perfectionism and deprivation become ingrained through innumerable repeated episodes. It naturally takes time to undo these emotional habits and to master a healthier response.

Spirituality means both accepting and mastering one's instincts: living one's natural desires in the light of one's principles is a prayer. It is never a misdeed, nor is it hypocrisy.

You will inhale Exhalation in a single, stunned sitting, because true genius doesn't come along nearly as often as advertised.' Blake Crouch

instead, they sought to improve themselves so that they might become masters of their world.

Don't do that again" may well be the most potent jazz mantra, a guidepost for the musician who seeks the highest peaks of artistic transcendence.

I've achieved a lot in Spain.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

I learned Spanish in five or six months.

To be able to perform at a high level, to be able to do things that no other fighter can do, you have to practice it. And the only way you can practice is by sparring, by fighting another man.

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

I would rather like my work to speak for itself.

If I have a bunch of computer lingo that I have no idea what I'm speaking about, I really need to know what I'm talking about.

M. J. was M. J. His body of work speaks for itself. We've seen his career, we've dissected his career and had the chance to watch it. That's done.

I like to be so good, that no-one can have anything to say about me; my dancing speaks for itself.

I feel like my work speaks for itself.

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.