Quotes About Mastery

We are beyond Fate, more powerful than we consider ourselves to be.

Conquer your lustful desires and your wisdom will be perfected.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Writers sometimes cast themselves into the most profound depths of despair in order to master it and move on. A person's true means of expression is his life. Living the shame of life and maintaining silence, that was the greatest accomplishment of all.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

First, master your instrument. Then forget all that bullshit and play!

When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.

on the famous Lord Acton line: "Power kills, and absolute power kills absolutely.

If you think me weak, bring forth your champion and let me do battle with him. And kill in that childish way of the Franks? Full of pomp and bravado? We are masters of death here. We do not play at it. - Ware & Sinan

Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of.

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Personal development is a lifelong commitment to excellence.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Chapter 8: Alteration Speed. You will be introduced to the "safeguard," known as alteration speed. Through mastery of body mechanics, you will develop the ability to stop and adjust instantly in the midst of movement—just in case you initiate a wrong move!

His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

How can we be persuaded to go on preaching, and learn to do so effectively? The essential secret is not mastering certain techniques but being mastered by certain convictions. In other words, theology is more important than methodology.1

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.