Quotes About Mastery

If we set up a system that makes people compete for acknowledgement, we invite game-playing and states-fiddling, even unhealthy stuff like working stupid hours to beat everyone. A crew full of unhappy people doing substandard work. If you build systems that make people focus on mastery, cooperation, and better work, we'll have a beautiful inn full of happy people working together well.

Computers can control you or they can lighten your work—if you want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.

Mark Twain say something about courage being the mastery of fear rather than the absence of fear?

Maybe life isn't about the absence of embarrassment, it's about the mastery of embarrassment.

She knew she submitted to life, which was her immediate master. But from her death, her ultimate master, she winced with fear and shame.

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

Focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, study the actions of the masters- penetrate deeply into a single form of practice.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself

To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.

desarrollar el arte de citar sin comillas hasta alcanzar el máximo nivel

Ginevra de Benci was made by a young artist with astonishing skills of observation. The Mona Lisa is the work of a man who had used those skills to immerse himself in a lifetime of intellectual passions.

If you need slides, it shows you don't know what you're talking about.

I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.

All great masters in any line think positive thoughts, which they put into action with intensive desire tested and tempered by balanced judgement.   All

of Ullswater that he acquired a more complete mastery

he acquired a more complete mastery of a spirit tamed by adversity, than his former experience had given him; and that he felt himself entitled to say firmly, though perhaps with a sigh, that the romance of his life was ended, and that its real history had now commenced. He was soon called upon to justify his pretensions to reason and philosophy.

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world.

The soul seeks to retain its authority and move independently, while the spirit strives to possess and master everything for the maintenance of God's authority.

Reread that quote carefully. If you are not the master of yourself, then by this definition you are not free. You do not have to be overtly powerful and exert influence over others to be free, nor is it necessary to intimidate others, nor to try to bully people into submission in order to prove your own mastery.

true mastery can only be gained by freeing yourself of attachments to things

Mastering others requires force; mastering the self needs strength.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

Take away Churchill in 1940...Nazism would have prevailed. Hitler would have achieved what no other tyrant, not even Napoleon, had ever achieved: mastery of Europe. Civilization would have descended into a darkness the likes of which it had never known.