Quotes About Mastery

child is not born with the tendency to neglect; it has to be acquired.

outnumbering her opponents by five to one.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

I read that part over and over again, until I felt I had the pronunciation right. There was quite a good pencil drawing of a phoenix, that mythical bird that was supposed

To win the lottery once may be evidence of luck or skill; to win it repeatedly is evidence of skill.

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists who are difficult writers even though some of the best have been very good writers. He should know, moreover, that at least for a few great men ambiguity of expression has been a positive asset. But with these exceptions he may safely conclude that what is wholly mysterious in economics is not likely to be important.

What worries you masters you.

A decade later Brand's Whole Earth Catalog would begin with the premise "We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.