Quotes About Mastery

Mastery of self-control of your thoughts and feelings is your highest achievement.

there's a difference between doing something and being something, but they merge into each other. I mean, you play the piano a bit, and then more and more, and at some point you become a pianist. That's who you are.

One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

The ocean extends an invitation to the swimmer that it withholds from the person who has never learned to swim. With every skill we learn, the world reshapes itself to reveal greater possibilities.

The airplane was a complicated system encompassing many components, but to a skilled pilot it still had the intimate quality of a hand tool. The love that lays the swale in rows is also the love that parts the clouds for the stick-and-rudder man.

Conscious craft turned into unconscious routine. When

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

A writer can never have complete command or mastery over what s/he writes. Neither can a reader.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

If nothing else, wolves are masters at decoding intentions.

Perhaps she wasn't as good at it as he was. He cut too deep.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

By studying the masters -- not their pupils.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole hours standing before the works of great masters, grasped and pursued a wondrous brush. He never finished anything without testing himself several times by these great teachers and reading wordless but eloquent advice for himself in their paintings.

That to own things did not necessarily mean one belonged; that possession was no guarantee of control

Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.

There is something that the "Naturals" are doing that they don't know they are doing. And no matter how many times they tell you their so called "Secrets of Success", they can't tell you something they're not consciously aware of. It's like saying to a fish, "so tell me about water".

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it's raining.

What many of us fail to realize is that the last four hundred years are a highly special period in the history of the world. The pace at which changes during these years have taken place is unexampled in earlier history, as is the very nature of these changes. This is partly the result of increased communication, but also of an increased mastery over nature which, on a limited planet like the earth, may prove in the long run to be an increased slavery to nature.

I am always polishing my sword. I am always perfecting my style." Ã¢â'¬â€œ Musashi Myamoto