Quotes About Mastery

It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.

Oh, subjective obstinacy had advantages, Morris, when we were busy evolving into nature's champion egotists. It led to human mastery over the planet Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and several times to our species nearly wiping itself out.

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

Now practice going through this version of the scenario each night until you have mastered it and can fantasize handling the situation effectively and calmly in this manner. This cognitive rehearsal will enable you to program yourself to respond in a more assertive and relaxed way when the actual situation confronts you again.

It is next to impossible to learn a complex skill by observation alone. One does not learn to play the violin by watching Heifitz or the piano by observing Rubenstein.

It's no coincidence it's the gurus on mountains who're wise. You get to the top: you're already theirs.

Not even the masters of the high/low rhetorical register go higher more panoramically or lower more exuberantly than Wallace—not Joyce, not Bellow, not Amis.

Chu says '… that because you proceed toward mastery through a series of plateaus, so there's like radical improvement up to a certain plateau and then what looks like a stall, on the plateau, with the only way to get off one of the plateaus and climb up to the next one up ahead is with a whole lot of frustrating mindless repetitive practice and patience and hanging in there.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Take pains. Be perfect.

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd.

To give yourself away keep yourself still, And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.

The great assay of art, but at his touch— Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand—

Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool, Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

We are the masters of our fate.

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We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

He fixed his eyes on my fingers while I played to him, then said suddenly, My God; I work at it till I sweat and yet get no success - while you, my friend, simply play at it! Yes, said I, but I too had to work in order that I might be exempt from work now.