Quotes About Mastery

I'm inspired by film-makers such as Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Orson Welles.

I keep up to scratch on the sax.

I've been doing 'How I Met Your Mother' for so long, and it's been so great, and I just feel like it's second nature at this point.

As time goes on you're getting more knowledge of your playbook and football, and you just pick it up a lot easier. Lining up everywhere is just second nature to me now.

I find it difficult to work if I don't know the lines, you know, and not just knowing - they're second nature to me. Then, whatever happens in the performance when you're actually doing it, you're not going to go off. You're going to retain all of that. So I like to have my lines.

Playing basketball is second nature to me; acting I found far more challenging.

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

I love owning my masters.

I'm all about owning your life.

Jon has always been able to start off at a certain pace but then pick it up throughout the fight and then, at the end of the fight, his opponents are like, 'Damn, this guy is at another level.' I think that's what makes Jon Jones, Jon Jones.

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.

Dybala is three pages ahead of the rest in the football manual.

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

If you want to learn how to paint, go to Caravaggio.

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.