Quotes About Mastery

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.

I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire

La represión es la única filosofía de efectos duraderos. La gran deferencia del miedo y de la esclavitud, amigo —dijo el marqués,— conservará a los perros obedientes al látigo mientras este techo —añadió mirando al techo— nos proteja del cielo.

Most people aren't trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding.

when you have learned to control yourself you will have found the "World Within" which controls the world without; you will have become irresistible; men and things will respond to your every wish without any apparent effort on your

Polanyi argued that we only truly know something—that is, have personal knowledge of it—when we can apply it to get results.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

Work is not peripheral to women's sense of Mastery, it is central. Women do not fully develop their capacities if they function primarily in the sphere of feelings and emotion; the idea that a man is what he does and a woman is what she feels is archaic. If work per se is important to a woman's well-being, so too is the quality of her work life.

Either dance well or quit the ballroom.

All things good to know are difficult to learn.

No need to teach an eagle to fly.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery … today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature.

Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Evan sits on the floor, hard; the collective wisdom of four cultures distilled into a single ass kicking.

He was a Tower of flesh and blood, rising above the emotional quagmire through which other men limped, thoughtless and impotent.

According to Kant's late work on the Principles of Politics (1793), the irreducible problem of the human species is the following: the human being is an animal and thus, to live peacefully with other animals of its kind, absolutely needs a master.

When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone's fears and dreams, you will be powerful.

Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book.

Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and craft of writing, have reminded me that it is the commitment to the craft that matters the most; the longing to get better and the countless hours of work that go into writing and rewriting. To them I am eternally grateful.