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Quotes About Mastery

Basketball is basketball, but with each level, there's new challenges and new things you have to pick up.
~ Blake Griffin
Some kids grasp a subject faster and race ahead to the next level, while others continue to struggle with the first. The great thing we've seen is that if you let a student take his time to master a concept, he will probably race ahead on the next one.
~ Sal Khan
It's easy to reach a certain level with chess, but it's very hard to reach the next level.
~ Jan Vertonghen
Don't be so hard on yourself. Make something simple a few times until you 'master' it and move on to the next thing. Take a cooking class! Buy a cookbook that specializes in foods or a cuisine you enjoy.
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
Every time you learn you can do something, you can go a little bit faster next time.
~ Joey Chestnut
Everyone has a niche of dunks that they are experts at.
~ John Collins
I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
~ Watkin Tudor Jones
The first riff that I totally mastered was 'Come As You Are' by Nirvana. I remember sitting there, plunking along, I remember thinking 'How do they even do this?'
~ Nita Strauss
Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.
~ Dweezil Zappa
Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
~ Ed Bradley
As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.
~ Brit Marling
I've had no problem harnessing anger.
~ Clint Eastwood
When you have quality and show it, there's no problem.
~ Riyad Mahrez
Technology does make possible advance toward shalom; progress in mastery of the world can bring shalom nearer. But the limits of technology must also be acknowledged; technology is entirely incapable of bringing about shalom between ourselves and God, and it is only scarcely capable of bringing about the love of self and neighbour.
~ Nicholas Wolterstorff
Walbourne's fluid, tasteful, beautiful solos drop the jaw, stop the heart, and smack the gob, all at the same time.
~ Nick Hornby
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.
~ Nikola Tesla
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of the mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.
~ Nikola Tesla
The... development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
~ Nikola Tesla
Free your self from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But isn't that, too, a form of slavery?
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
cu cât st?pânul st? mai sus, cu atât mai mult se lungeÈ™te funia robiei noastre, s?rim atunci È™i zburd?m într-o b?t?tur? mai larg?, murim f?r? s?-i d?m de cap?t È™i asta numim libertate [...]
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Could it be that the higher one's master stands, the rope tying one to slavery is lengthened by the same amount? In that case, if we jump and frolic in a much wider domain, we die without ever discovering its boundaries.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
All three are terrific carpenters and cabinetmakers.
~ Nora Roberts
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. —Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene III CHAPTER SIXTEEN Hands on Fallon's shoulders, Eddie drew back, his eyes damp as he studied her face.
~ Nora Roberts
Doing it right, is more important than doing it fast. I can do it fast and right.
~ Nora Roberts