Quotes About Mastery

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

A collection of mistakes is called experience and experience is the key to success.

If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Life would be much easier if I had the source code

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

If I was meant to be controlled, I would have came with a remote.

You must master your habits or they will master you.

Anyone can throw a jab, but it takes skill to land a punch and make it hurt.

Good knowledge of an art or profession is essential to be successful in life. A man with insufficient knowledge will always cause harm to himself and others.

Les grands littérateurs n'ont jamais fait qu'une seule oeuvre.

To be sure, external things of whatever kind require skill in their use, but we must not grow attached to them; whatever they are, they should only serve for us to show how skilled we are in our handling of them.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

Philip would not be afraid to die. But to live; to take over the mastery of more than half the world; to make swift decisions in the heat of action; to break the power of his arrogant nobles and then seem to make friends with them, while always distrusting them; to trust no one, depend on no one, to listen to advice and take none of it - yes, Philip was afraid to live.

Practise make it perfect!

No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have. We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

I know essentially you're some kind of enchantress. Maybe you're still serving your apprenticeship, but you're an enchantress all right. Probably I'd get used to you in time. Right now, it's only my demonic will that's keeping me playing it mighty cool.