Quotes About Mastery

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

People can come to me, and no matter how expert they are, I can virtually always see a way of doing something better.

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 abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

The practice of patience in crafting and process is a virtue that needs to come back.

What I did by virtue of skipping a lot of classes was get two undergraduate degrees and a master's in four years. It wasn't slacking. There were much more productive ways of learning everything than sitting in lectures.

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.

You can't truly act as if you're a lawyer or a lifter until you know how to think like one.

When you watch an accomplished professional in any field, you are looking at innumerable hours of practice.

We all have, she knew, a place where we're not only most comfortable, but most competent

With patience comes power.

In the technological world...it is no longer a question of dominating nature or society in order to be more free or more happy, but of mastery for mastery's sake, of domination for the sake of domination. Why? For no end, precisely, or rather: because it is quite simply impossible to do otherwise, given the nature of societies entirely governed by competition, by the absolute imperative to 'advance or perish'.

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Wherever this idea, that the religious predicates are only anthropomorphisms, has taken possession of man, there has doubt, has unbelief, obtained mastery of faith.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into it's secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of gods.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.