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Quotes About Mastery

He wanted players who controlled the ball with their first touch, who had quick feet, who retained the ball and created superiority from individual technique and group work.
~ Guillem Balagué
Secondly, you should be able to control the ball with one touch. If you needed another one, you were not one of the best players, just a good one. If you needed an extra touch, you were playing badly.
~ Guillem Balagué
The writer in his work must be like God in his creation—invisible and all-powerful: he must be everywhere felt, but never seen.
~ Gustave Flaubert
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
~ Gustave Flaubert
She'd been afraid, preparing herself, after the summons came to the farmhouse—but fear was something you mastered, not a thing that defined you. Folco told all of them that, often. You didn't deny you felt it, you ruled
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Strive for excellence, not perfection.
~ H. Jackson Jr. Brown
Old Herriot may be limited in some respects, but by God, he can wrap a cat.
~ James Herriot
Take to control of your own life. Choose what you want to do and do it well. Because no one else can do it for you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Take control of your own life. Choose what you want to do and do it well. Because no one else can do it for you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Cowboys are like horses — they require training.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Any problems created by the left hand of a person, Can also be solved with the right, For they who manifests anything, Also has the ability to Destroy it.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I answered few questions in class. I watched my master's face pass from amiability to sternness; he hoped I was not beginning to idle. I could not call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
~ James Joyce
maestro di color che sanno.
~ James Joyce
Success doesn't come from summoning help from the Force, but from taking control of it and generating the power from within yourself.
~ James Luceno
How Plagueis would have mocked him for allowing himself to become personally involved in such a seemingly trivial matter; but then his Master had never foreseen that his onetime apprentice would become Emperor.
~ James Luceno
Discipline was the key to power. Unflinching discipline was what forged him into a sword master and warrior. Discipline was what enabled him to defy gravity and slow the inrush of sensory input, so that he could move between the moments.
~ James Luceno
Magister Damask, if I may be so bold as to inquire: what is our eventual goal?" "The goal is to extend my life indefinitely. To conquer death.
~ James Luceno
Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves.
~ James M. Buchanan
We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.
~ James Patterson
BECAUSE I'M REALLY GOOD," Rhonda added.
~ James Patterson
Abdul Qadir was my main role model. I just wanted to be like him because, for me, he was only guy who no one could read. He was that good. His passion, his love for legspin, was unique. He would create new things all the time: flippers, sliders, three to four kinds of googlies, legspinners, topspinners.
~ Imran Tahir
I have had such a unique experience in the game. I got to experience the best of my craft, and I did that multiple times. There is nothing more I wish I could experience.
~ Maya Moore
'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.
~ Frank Delaney
I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality.
~ Willie Geist