Quotes About Mastery

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

There is no such thing as a natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls

Jack Nicklaus was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player

Years ago I had a 1-iron I could hit 260 yards through a doorway. Now I can hit it through the keyhole

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.

A person who spends eight years learning how to make a cake will probably make you a good cake, but a person who spends eight years as an aviator and a tailor and a math tutor and a trainer of bears in the circus will probably kill you in a plane he is flying very badly while wearing a shirt that doesn't fit and fighting off an ill-behaved bear, all the while insisting that seven times six is harmonica.

take either forty-eight or eighty-four pages to

This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.

Control yourself. You'll spurt.

You're not very good at this, are you?' 'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.

Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.

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Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. . . . It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

she cannot expect to excel if she does not practice a good deal.

no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

You should see me work my magic in leather Ranger

My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.

Yeah. My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.

You can't follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.