Quotes About Mastery

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like it`s all you know how to do.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did not succeed in saying anything of it; his passion mastered her. She tried to calm him, to calm herself, but it was too late. His feeling infected her. Her lips trembled so that for a long while she could say nothing." "Yes, you have conquered me, and I am yours," she said at last, pressing his hands to her bosom. "So it had to be," he said. "So long as we live, it must be so. I know it now.

There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.

Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself.

As often happens with passionate people, he was mastered by anger but was still seeking an object on which to vent it.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

The artist is the closest man comes to being God.

An old Scot used to say to us, 'If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.

High Standards for High Achievement

Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next decade or two, some acquire a sense of mastery over their surroundings; others acquire a profound sense of helplessness.

Finally, who can say of a crude, ill-decorated pot that it represents the end stage of a craft in decline rather than the first faltering steps of a new industry, or the fumbling of an apprentice in a mature stage of an established one, or even the blunder of a highly competent craftsman with a hangover?

wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice, and then go back and do it again.

Pursue excellence rather than fame -- it will get you farther faster, and will be way more satisfying.

He was going to be a motherfucking Magician.

You need to do more than memorize, Quentin. You must learn the principles of magic with more than your head. You must learn them with your bones, with your blood, your liver, your heart, your deek." He grabbed his crotch through his dressing gown and gave it a shake.

He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.