Quotes About Mastery

Competence can be a curse

If we know how to adapt, we end up being superior.

A true master is indifferent to the ways of society.

When people go to hear a spiritual master, they do not go to hear self-deprecation. They go to see perfection.

Invisibility is the best advantage. But if forced to a confrontation, Come out with all your skill.

Surpass today what you were yesterday, go beyond those of poor skill tomorrow, and exceed those who are skillful later.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

There are more Grandmasters now than ever before: 1,200-plus today versus 88 in 1972. And

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

The ability to sense an attack is what the ancient masters meant by anticipation. If one's mind is steady and pure, one can instantly perceive an attack and avoid it—that, I realized, is the essence of aiki (the art of harmonization)

Hear the soundless sound, and see the formless form. At a glance, read your opponent's mind, and attain victory without contention

Draw a circle around the center of a human being. Within this circle lies all physical power. Outside of this circle, even the strongest human being loses his power. If you can pin your partner outside of his sphere of strength, you can control him with just one finger

An attack is proof that one is out of control. Never run away from any kind of challenge, but do not try to suppress or control an opponent unnaturally

Day after day Train your heart out, Refining your technique: Use the One to strike the Many! That is the discipline of a Warrior

An attack is proof that one is out of control.

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

Only the perfect man can teach in silence, because he has reached it, and therefore he alone can stimulate it in others. He speaks through the silence infinitely more potently than through any human language. But those who are not yet Jivanmuktas naturally prefer to use speech and pen.

Conceal your heart, control your mouth. Beware of releasing the restraints in you; Listen if you want to endure in the mouth of the hearers. Speak after you have mastered the craft.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

Though it is from the East that the Sun rises, Showing itself bold and bright without a veil, it burns and blazes with inward fire Only when it escapes from the shackles of East and West. Drunk with the splendor it springs up out of its East that it may subject all its horizons to its mastery. Its nature is innocent of both East and West, Though in origin, true, it is an Easterner.

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