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Quotes About Mastery

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
~ Nora Roberts
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. —Aristotle
~ Nora Roberts
La repetición es la madre de todos los talentos.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Before you can truly submit, you must learn to control your reactions, your responses, your desires and your needs. Before you give yourself fully to another, you must first become the master of yourself." He
~ Claire Thompson
The first step is making sure you, as the Top, do, in fact, know what the hell you're doing.
~ Claire Thompson
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, then you don't know what you are doing.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
What are all the experiences and problems that I have to learn about and master so that what comes out at the other end is somebody who is ready and capable of becoming a successful CEO?
~ Clayton M. Christensen
All things fear Man. Man has made all things to fear him.
~ Clifford D. Simak
there's nothing in the world more fun than doing something you're good at.
~ Clive Barker
Muck held the whip hand.
~ Clive Barker
I have found my voice again and the art of using it...
~ Colette
the shadow of the master, the reminder that
~ Colson Whitehead
If you could learn from me how to do a brain surgery in as short a time as I am learning this roadwork, I would have great respect for you.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Be the master of your will and the servant of your conscience
~ Viktor Frankl
The success of the masterpieces seems to lie not so much in their freedom from faults — indeed we tolerate the grossest errors in them all — but in the immense persuasiveness of a mind which has completely mastered its perspective.
~ Virginia Woolf
And there rose in her an unmastering desire to overcome her; to unmask her. If she could have felled her it would have eased her. But it was not the body; it was the soul and its mockery that she wished to subdue; make feel her mastery.
~ Virginia Woolf
Untuk menikmati kebebasan kita harus mengendalikan diri sendiri.
~ Virginia Woolf
the men are undone by the need to master, and the women by the power of self-doubt.
~ Vivian Gornick
Easy, you know, does it, son.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
One caution about "the zone": it cannot be controlled by Self 1. I have seen many articles that claim to provide a technique for "playing in the zone every time." Forget it! This is a setup. It's an age-old trap.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
If you are in any doubt, ask the pro to show you the motion, not tell you about it.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
fundamentally, experience precedes technical knowledge. We
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
experience precedes technical knowledge.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
key to better tennis—or better anything—lies in improving the relationship between the conscious teller, Self 1, and the natural capabilities of Self 2.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey