Quotes About Mastery

Here's something I heard recently: men move toward whatever makes them feel competent. As soon as I heard that I knew it was true. Every man I know migrates toward something that makes him feel powerful and in control.

I]t is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

I'm an apple expert. Apples are the only exam I could ever hope to pass.

You know how it is when a tricky job is going well because you're doing things the way they should be done, when you're working in rhythm and feel a reassuring confidence that everything's unraveling naturally and all will be right in the end. That's about it: I know what I was doing -- it's really what being a professional means.

You know, it's quite exciting to watch a professional at work if you bother to look. I mean going at a job he does really well. You look at him with new eyes from then on. In this odd sort of way I was seeing Moon for the first time.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

Aberjhani can write about anything, and give it uncommon beauty.

Jim Rohn said, "If you read one book every month about your industry, in ten years you'll have read 120 books. That will put you in the top one percent of your field.

Being an "expert" in anything means doing the basics exceptionally well, so Reece started with the fundamentals

The Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi,

Stance, grip, shoulder, anchor, peep, pull, and finish, Reece thought, reviewing the basics. As with anything in life, the best do the basics exceptionally well.

Slow is smooth; smooth is fast.

the true test of awesome power is the ability not to use it,

Golf is a better game played downhill.

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn control and discipline over the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must conquer inordinate vanity and anger, self-deception, fear, and inhibition.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Understanding is power and whoever has it has everything.

Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.

Calmness is power.