Quotes About Mastery

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Beware the man with one gun. He can probably use it.

Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!

Palming separates the men from the boys!

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.