Quotes About Mastery

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

Her beauty is a mastery of peace.

To change masters is not to be free.

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.

In every area of politics, the goal is control.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

Skill to do comes of doing.

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.

To conquer fear, you must become fear.

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.

Every work is challenging if you want to do it perfectly !!