Quotes About Mastery

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

The best way for you to gain confidence is to prepare so well on something ... that there can be little chance to fail.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

All of my base are belong to me.

The very best wizards don't need much more than chalk, table salt, and a wooden spoon to pull off some remarkable stuff.

As a rule, people aren't good at handling power. And the second you think you're better at controlling your power than anyone else, you've already taken the first step.

myself under control.

I roared at him. "Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!

Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

Information was control.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language

As it happens I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language, and I am not optimistic about children who will settle for saying, to indicate that their mother and father do not live together, that they come from "a broken home." They are sixteen, fifteen, fourteen years old, younger all the time, an army of children waiting to be given the words.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospel until it does. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

A named thing is a tamed thing.

If knowledge was power I had under my possession the entire school