Quotes About Mastery

Our music is harder to play than it sounds. It's the small details you don't realize are there until you try and re-do it.

We expect nothing but greatness from ourselves.

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.

Every time I perform I always kind of outdo myself.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

Don't go outside the box when you're still not very good inside the box.

Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I gotta work on my overall game.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

My strength is that I know the game so well. Whatever shortcomings I had because of lack of experience, I could always overcome those because the bottom line was, I knew the game.

No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.

Commoditization is the enemy of meaning. In ages dominated by the forces of commoditization, individuals pay the price with devalued lives. by contrast, unique skills requiring mastery and expertise, like the skills of a brain surgeon, are safe from the threat of commoditization.

similar feat. A single deft stroke

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

relentless practice creates a database of experience that you can draw upon to make more enlightened choices.

If you own yourself, you own the world.

If you want to improve in chess," wrote Ericsson, "you don't do it by playing chess. You do it with solitary study of the grandmasters' games.

We often interrupt people at the beginner stage, forgetting that talent can take time.

Isao Aoki is one of the three best players in the world from 100yards. Maybe the best

Now that they are called masters, [they] are ashamed again to become disciples.

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