Quotes About Mastery

Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.

My biggest strength is the way I vary pace without any change in my hand-speed. The batsmen can't make out.

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it.

You can be very connected, computers are great, they can get you a ticket to Venezuela in five minutes; brilliant. But if you know your music and your history, you can make that work as a tool. If you don't, you're working as a slave to it.

Versatility is an extra string to a player's bow.

What we have to learn, we learn by doing. —Aristotle

Assembly programmers are the only programmers who can truly claim to be the masters, and that's a truth worth meditating on.

A great finisher needs to keep a lid on his emotions

shorthand at seventy words a minute.

We all have to be knowledgeable about something, and Cheddar is my specialty.

Agnes had fallen in love with appliqué, thanks to her wise, patient teacher, and she made more complex and intricate quilts in the years that had followed, but the Christmas Cactus quilt would always be precious to her, not only because she had discovered a new artistic path by mastering appliqué, but also because Edna's generosity of spirit inspired her to live her own life free of judgment and bitterness.

Spiritual warriorship is not about mastering others, but about mastering yourself. And there is no path to mastery: mastery is the path, and everyday practice…

Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.

He had never really mastered English, but he'd studied enough to have a healthy fear of its random severity, the senseless brutatlity of its conjugations; it was unpredictable, like a cross-bred dog.

He had never really mastered English, but he'd studied enough to have a healthy fear of its random severity, the senseless brutality of its conjugations; it was unpredictable, like a cross-bred dog.

Your hands already know too much.

Should I dream of a day, in the future, when I'll no longer need the dictionary, the notebook, the pen? A day when I can read in Italian without tools, the way I read in English? Shouldn't that be the point of all this? I don't think so. When I read in Italian, I'm a more active reader, more involved, even if less skilled. I like the effort. I prefer the limitations. I know that in some way my ignorance is useful to me.

Une langue étrangère, c'est comme un muscle frêle, délicat. Si l'on ne s'en sert pas, il s'affaiblit.

So che non è possibile conoscere una lingua straniera alla perfezione. Non a caso, ciò che mi confonde di più in italiano è l'uso dell'imperfetto rispetto al passato prossimo.

The better I understand the language, the more confusing it is.

I continue to admit that Italian is not my language, that it's an adopted language I love and use without possession. But I also ask myself: Who possesses a language, and why? Is it a question of lineage? Mastery? Use? Affect? Attachment? What does it mean, in the end, to belong to a language?

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.