Quotes About Mastery

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous.

People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

You should see me work my magic in leather" Ranger

Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.

My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'

I'm extremely accurate; that's one of my biggest strengths.

Shooting is definitely one of my strengths.

I know my strengths. I know what I'm good at.

Your strengths have to stand out. Your strengths have to be perfected.

Your first book is kind of a labor of ignorance. You don't realize the difficulty of it. Your second book is sort of a labor of fear. Then you sort of either hit a stride, or you don't.

I used to watch Juninho's free-kicks without being able to figure out how he hit them. I tried and tried until, eventually, I came up with my own way to strike them.