Quotes About Mastery

It was like learning to ride the bike; I felt myself taking off, the freedom of going places I couldn't have gone before, and it was easy.

He has the good reporter's gift for being in the right place at the right moment, and the structure and rhythm of his sentences show how well he has mastered his medium.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

La palabra es mi dominio sobre el mundo

Nijinsky got all his master classes over in a single line of explanation.

Qui t'en empêche, ô Toi qui règnes sur ma vie, Toi qui peux presque tout, Toi qui, d'un plissement volontaire de tes sourcils, rapproches dans le ciel les nuages ?

Every shift is a work of art.

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

Once he had watched Liz making a silk braid. One end was pinned to the wall and on each finger of her raised hands she was spinning loops of thread, her fingers flying so fast he couldn't see how it worked. 'Slow down,' he said, 'so I can see how you do it,' but she'd laughed and said, 'I can't slow down, if I stopped to think how I was doing it I couldn't do it at all.

I begin to understand you." She nods. "The blacksmith makes his own tools.

Forgetting is an art like other arts. It needs dedication and practice.

Playing the villain was the only thing he'd ever really excelled at.

We get power by taking it.

El verdadero poder no se concede, y tampoco se puede arrebatar

Power,' he said. 'Power is the ability to get what you want. Power is the ability to be the one making the decisions.

It's all yours.

My advice," says Val Moren, "is tgat you learn to juggle better than I did, seneschal.

Always to be bravest and to be preeminent above others.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German masters, and the dazzling ardor, the happy fertility, of the Italian painters.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

It was as though he had an amazing skill, like playing a complicated musical instrument, that Alice could never hope to master.

When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be done by single minds not of encyclopedic range, is to master one subject or branch of subject as thoroughly as possible, and to rest content with knowing that others are working in regions where neither time nor strength will permit us to enter.

And I aint on HOVA level, Im over level.