Quotes About Mastery

A lot of professions assume that you're going to take eight to ten years just to achieve the minimum level of competence necessary to start to practice. That's been a good grounding force when doing projects, because a lot of things go wrong here and there, but if you just assume that anything worthwhile is going to take five to ten years, they don't feel as severe.

DiSSS The recipe for learning any skill is encapsulated in this acronym.

The antithesis of mastery is the pursuit of quick fixes.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. —NIELS BOHR,

si no haces algo bien, no lo hagas a menos que estés dispuesto a dedicar tiempo a mejorarlo.

Estresado es el término que usa el triunfador cuando quiere decir miedo.» «Los perdedores reaccionan, los líderes se anticipan.» «La maestría no sale de una infografía. Lo que sabes no vale una mierda. ¿Qué es lo que haces de forma sistemática?»

método de natación de inmersión total de Terry Laughlin,

Strength is a skill, and, as such, it must be practiced.

Beat and cuff the slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog," but "give him a good master, and he wishes to become his own master."1

Violence is not confidence, and terror is not mastery.

Having Khidr as a master gives the disciple a transcendent dimension. It confers a 'personal, direct, and immediate bond with the Godhead' . . . Each disciple becomes what Khidr is, the center of the world.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn't divinely inspired – it's hard work.

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

Management is hard, and not because there is so much work to do (an overworked manager is almost certainly doing work he/she shouldn't be doing). Management is hard because the skills are inherently difficult to master. Your mastery of them will affect your organization more than anything going on under you.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'

I feel like I'm a complete player, on the offensive end for sure.

Oh my God, my English is the worst!

I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't.

Part of the problem of comedians doing specials every year - when the masters do it, it's like, 'Okay, I guess, go for it' - but when people aren't at the top of the top level, bits don't get to cook long enough.

I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.

Henry Cejudo is going to become the greatest combat athlete of all time, being an Olympic champ and a two-division champ in the UFC.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.