Quotes About Mastery

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

I never practice; I always play.

I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what you're doing

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

It's the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard — but when you move, you do not suffer. That's the feeling I am looking for.

Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

Work hard with passion and courage. Life is a marathon of contribution. You really must work hard to accomplish something... Find your passion and get good at it.

The Harder you work, the easier it looks