Quotes About Mastery

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Stupidity is like art. Everyone can do it, but only the truly gifted are masters at it.

Boys who say 'I hate Justin Bieber' are those ones who can't master his hair flip no matter how much they practice.

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, youre the best.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Use the technology which the engineer as developed, but use it with a humble and questioning spirit. Never allow technology to be your master, and never use it to gain mastery over others.

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

Teach a cook a recipe and he'll cook for a night; teach a cook a technique and she'll improvise for a lifetime.

First you follow recipes to the letter; then you begin to synthesize some of those recipes, comparing one with another and drawing on what you see as the best of them; then you develop a repertoire of recipes you've made your own. Finally you throw away the books, start shopping, open the refrigerator, and cook. You cook like a grandmother, or like anyone with experience.

Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

A preacher can always improve, no matter how gifted he is.

To tell a story is to take power over it.

learn the trade, not the tricks of the trade.

As a writer, you have to re-earn your chops with every new book

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

Yet Yogi Bhajan describes mastery of this practice as arising from teaching it: "If you want to learn something," he says, "read it. If you want to know something, write it. If you want to MASTER something, Teach it!" (Bhajan).

If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?

Learn the lick, but learn FROM the lick.

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer