Quotes About Mastery

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." —John Ruskin

Barlozzo's word for nonchalance is sprezzatura. A hard word, a hard concept. The translation is "the state of effortlessness." It means the mastering of something—an art, a life—without really working at it, with the result being nonchalance.

What you are telling me is nothing new. You are not the only one who has trouble with wandering thoughts. Our minds are extremely unfocussed. But our will is the master of all our faculties, and it is able to rein them in and carry them to God, which is their final goal.

But simple is far from easy.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Masters become masters because they practice in the little moments. Every pause, every moment to yourself is an opportunity to try again. Every tiny shift matters, and the more you practice, the better you will become. Besides, if not now, when?

You can tell your body to do whatever you want, Miss Idina," he'd told her, his eyes closed and his legs crossed beneath him while a young Idina fidgeted in her attempt at the same position. "When you tell your mind to do what you say, and it finally obeys, this is mastery. Over anything and everything you wish.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous.

The only sin is mediocrity.

Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything.

Good form and technique is a means to an end - for example, your punches will be more powerful if done right - rather than the objective itself.

But Michelangelo did not want us to know how he learned to sculpt and, whatever the truth of the matter, he succeeded in suppressing it. The impression he wanted to pass down was that he just picked up the art of sculpture through sheer brilliance and inherent understanding of design; conceivably, that might even be correct.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

My temptations have been my masters in divinity.

I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone else know more about English Literature than me. So calm yourself, Elfish, and let an expert take over.

When you shift your focus from getting grades to gaining understanding, you set yourself on the road to mastery. You begin learning how to learn.

Worth remembering that: forget what you want to do, find something you do better than anyone else, even if it's only turd-throwing, and become undisputed champion: better a champion shit-shoveller than a forty-second-rate turnip-carver . . . Where

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Practice makes perfect.....But nobody's perfect......so why practice?

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.

Truth was a harder skill to master than swinging a sword.