Quotes About Mastery

I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of skeletal warriors, who can destroy by touch alone. I can raise a wall of ice to protect those I serve. The invisible is discernible to my eyes. Ordinary magic spells crumble in my presence... But I bow in the presence of a master. -- Lord Soth to Raistlin Majere

We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself, and can, therefore, regulate his own conduct when it shall be necessary to follow some rule of life. Such

Don't let it rule you: it will ruin you...

Every pro starts off as an amateur. There's not one top artist, athlete, writer, scientist, architect, entrepreneur, programmer, musician, or potter who enters the field at the top of her game. To begin anything new or learn anything new means you will be a neophyte. You must go from outsider to insider. Respect that. Embrace it. Be willing to suck.

Knowing something intellectually is very different from doing something consistently, mastering it, and benefiting from it.

To build skills, earn trust, develop a body of work, forge relationships, gain mastery

Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.

The most amazing speeches are a mix of fear, expertise, and practice.

I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen.

One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you.

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they're no good.