Quotes About Mastery

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

Handle your tools without mittens.

If you work at something, you get better at it.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

By the work one knows the workman.

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.