Quotes About Mastery

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Good is not enough. You've got to be great.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

Clarity breeds mastery.

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

Commit to "CAN I!" - Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.

A task which seems difficult, can be done with adequate training.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

If I don't practice for a day, I know it. If I don't practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don't practice for three days, the public knows it.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It's because we're different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.