Quotes About Mastery

I'm good everywhere. I can defend the takedowns. I can get a guy down if I want them. I can keep it standing and strike. I can do it all.

Henri Hooft is a master on the feet when it comes to striking.

Striking out batters was easy.

My striking is on a different level.

I need to improve my striking and my wrestling, but I always be best at jiu-jitsu.

I'm upping my game in all aspects - striking, Jiu Jitsu, wrestling - so I can be ready for every single thing.

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.

The sitar is a really difficult instrument to play. Physically it's taxing because of the cross-legged sitting position, the length of the neck on the shoulder, the thinness of the strings. There's a lot of pain, especially at the start.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

We strive for greatness.

I strive for improvement. want to be a master of my craft.

I always felt something different when I saw Gary Oldman on screen. It just felt like he knew how to reach a deeper level of himself, which is something I keep striving to reach.

Each day in practice, I try go perfect. I try to be perfect every turn, every stroke. That's the way I feel comfortable.

You have to keep on learning all the time unless and until you become perfect in all the strokes.

Because when you're 10, 11, 12, 13, you see all these strokes and you want to copy them. And it's not easy to keep what you started with, if that makes sense.

Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power.

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which means it's not something standard that you can copy.

No one wants to see me struggling to get a horse under control because I can't ride it. And no one wants to see me not knowing how to deal with the psychological makeup of the character.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

I like to say jiu-jitsu is like mathematics. It has to be exact otherwise you don't have it.

Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing.

Nobody does our music better than us.