Quotes About Mastery

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree. (from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

For those few minutes I experienced a feeling of complete mastery, a perfect, unstable equilibrium. The kind of perfection that belongs only to things that are temporary, destined to end shortly.

The best way to learn about a subject is to write a book about it." I

Drill dispenses with intelligence, training develops it.

the key point is this: with or without a formal training in anthropology, we all do need to think about the cultural patterns and classification systems that we use. If we do, we can master our silos. If we do not, they will master us.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly so every stretch won't feel like your first.

I am writing like an angel

E poi che cosa credeva, il signorino Bruno, che fare il calzolaio non presentasse dei lati interessanti? Qualsiasi attività umana ne presenta. Basta esercitarla con passione, riuscire a conoscerla nei suoi segreti.

Potencia equivale a esclavitud.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

complete submergence of the acquired skill in the subconscious.

Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity.

gradually understood that I wasn't practicing to play the guitar, but playing the guitar to learn about practicing.

He found himself falsely thinking that one could scarcely begrudge these people the mastery of the world; if they wanted it enough to pay the same price they exacted of others; if they were willing to bring the common suffering and irreparable loss upon themselves as everyone else.

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

The master of life is a master of truth.

INQUIETUD: A aquel que está en mi poder, el mundo no le sirve de nada.

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.

Also he saw one dog, that would neither conciliate nor obey, finally killed in the struggle for mastery.

He had sought to equip himself with the tools of artistry. On the other hand, he had not sacrificed strength. His conscious aim had been to increase his strength by avoiding excess of strength. Nor