Quotes About Mastery

Simplicity is the final achievement.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final print captivates me far more.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

Be a master of yourself.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.