Quotes About Mastery

Merely knowing a word, moreover, doesn't necessarily make you capable of using it.

When man is no longer his own master, custodian of his own silly vanities and childish contentments he's nothing at all—being in the first place only an agent of a very experimental stage of organic free will

she knows she can control this, it's the control that gives her pleasure, at first.

But asking a physicist to comment on smoking and cancer is like asking an Air Force captain to comment on the design of a submarine. He might know something about it; then again, he might not. In any case, he's not an expert.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Perfection is possible

The clitoris not only applauds when a women flaunts her mastery; it will give a standing ovation. In the multiple orgasm, we see the finest evidence that our lady Klitoris helps those who help themselves. It may take many minutes to reach the first summit, but once there the lusty mountaineer finds wings awaiting her. She does noy need to scramble back to the ground before scaling the next peak, but can glide like a raptor on currents of joy.

We learn writing by doing it. That simple. We don't learn by going outside ourselves to authorities we think know about it.

No, miltä näyttää?" hän kysyy. "Erinomaiselta, olette yksinkertaisesti taikuri!" "Olen pelkkä mestari," hän vastaa

a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.

success in any field—be it sports, the arts, business, science, and certainly the military—requires both confidence AND competence.

Confidence is that feeling that you can do something (or that you know something) so well you don't have to think about how to do it when you're doing it. That skill or knowledge is in you, it's part of you, and it will come out when needed if you let it.

Creative Copying: He also returned to his earlier practice of copying other artists' works. Apart from the fact that it could be done indoors, copying was a way of learning, and although he was now a great master (without fully recognizing the fact), Van Gogh's urge to learn remained very strong.

technology is merely a tool and any blame always rests squarely on the one wielding that tool. Saul

Did you win your sword fight?" "Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world." "And you wrote the software." "Yeah. That, too," Hiro says.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

What an artist dies with me!

To name a thing was to own, control and understand it.

The twelve disciples represent the twelve qualities of mind which can be controlled and disciplined by man. If disciplined they will at all times obey the command of the one who has disciplined them.

La lección aprendida será esta: Hay sólo un Maestro y este Maestro es Dios, el Yo Soy dentro de ellos mismos "Yo Soy el Señor tu Dios que te sacó de la tierra de Egipto; fuera de la casa de la esclavitud". Yo Soy, tu conciencia, es Señor y Maestro y, por otra parte, tu conciencia no es ni Señor ni Maestro. Tú eres el Maestro de todo lo que siempre serás consciente de ser.