Quotes About Mastery

Perhaps sex was something you had to learn and then stick at until you were good at it, like hockey or the piano. But an initial lesson would be helpful.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.