Quotes About Mastery

Every job is a self portrait of a person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

The greatest form of power is the power to control one's self not the power to control others.

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power

Gifts are given. Mastery is earned.

Patience is inner strength. One who is master of patience is mater of every thing.

Mastery experiences are those achievements where you know that it was your hard work and effort that brought about success.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

You can't be better than everyone at everything. You can always become the best at something specific. Zero in on the target and own it!

Don't work until you get it right. Work until you can't get it wrong.

You must have control on your desire otherwise they will control you.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Everything is hard before it is easy.

Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

Good knowledge of an art or profession is essential to be successful in life. A man with insufficient knowledge will always cause harm to himself and others.

Practice makes perfect. How many times have parents uttered those words to encourage their children …?

Practice never makes anyone perfect, it only increases their improvement.

Teaching a learned person is like teaching an eagle to fly.