Quotes About Mastery

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Art is science in the flesh.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

It's all about control.

When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself.

If you can think independently, you are the master of this universe.

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Make the difficult habitual, the habitual easy, and the easy beautiful.

There are too many windbags in this world. Speak only when you are competent in a subject - It produces dignity." - L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

Focus on greatness to be great.

Confidence comes from relentless pursuit of perfection.

Lying is an art, if you can convince yourself with lie, then you are a master.

Pickpocket is a sink-or-swim profession, not something that can be taught in the comfort of your living room.

A good pickpocket isn't afraid of intimacy.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.