Quotes About Mastery

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

Anything a man can do, I can fix.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.