Quotes About Mastery

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others--sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on--can sometimes have dangerous side effects.

acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

Do you mean that those who are considered masters do not have total mastery? They don't have it because they aren't looking for it. They accept reality, they go with life, they receive lessons from life and understand them often.

N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

Only slaves love being powerful. HANS ERICH NOSSACK

Shortcuts of the expense of training will make you a weaker Jedi

would go up the learning curve only once." These

The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.

What you love to do, you will learn to do well.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

One thousand days of lessons for discipline; ten thousand days of lessons for mastery.

The way of the warrior does not include other ways…but if you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both ways.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

Professionally, I have no age.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

The doer alone learneth.

Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.

Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.