Quotes About Mastery

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.

The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it.

I can barely turn on my computer!

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

Confidence is when you stand over a shot and know you're going to make it because you've done it time and time again.

Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation.

I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.