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Quotes About Mastery

The key to success is not seeing how much you can do, but doing one thing you love most with excellence.
~ Unknown
To master a lesson or any art there is no short cut. One has to work hard, practise for hours, keep on doing it till one gets it right.
~ Unknown
God possesses absolute and unlimited rights over his creation.
~ Unknown
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
And then there are painters who never do anything that is no good, who cannot do anything bad, just as there are ordinary people who can do nothing but good.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Pois bem, este é o meu forte, fazer um homem toscamente numa única sessão.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting. Just read the Bible and the Gospel, that will start you thinking, thinking about many things, thinking about everything, well then, think about many things, think about everything, that will lift your thoughts above the humdrum despite yourself. We know how to read, so let us read!
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
~ Virgil
I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture.
~ Vitruvius
I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture.
~ Vitruvius
It is practice first and knowledge afterwards.
~ Vivekananda
One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.
~ Unknown
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
Whoever you are, behold your master,He is, or was, or has to be.
~ Voltaire
Partnering, however, provides a way for companies to secure needed capabilities fast and effectively while dropping their cost structure. It allows a company to leverage other companies' expertise and economies of scale. Partnering includes closing gaps in capabilities through making small acquisitions when doing so is faster and cheaper, providing access to needed expertise that has already been mastered.
~ W. Chan Kim
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
~ W. Clement Stone
by employing the right work habits, you do become an expert. Then you experience the joy of work, and the job is no longer work. It becomes fun.
~ W. Clement Stone
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
~ Unknown
Quality is pride of workmanship.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Competent men in every position, if they are doing their best, know all that there is to know about their work except how to improve it.
~ W. Edwards Deming
He shaped and molded that office to the contours of his own heroic stature.
~ Unknown
the key to better tennis—or better anything—lies in improving the relationship between the conscious teller, Self 1, and the natural capabilities of Self 2.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
I cannot now think symbols less than the greatest of all powers whether they are used consciously by the master of magic or half unconsciously by their successors, the poet, the musician, and the artist.
~ W.B. Yeats
A long time ago the lightening was practicing Something I thought was easy
~ W.S. Merwin